• 4 months ago
Jeannie Lewis - "If I Was Leaving" ('Franky & Terry' rock opera) (1972)
Transcript
00:00As Frankie went about his after-dinner botanical studies, she gave him a song for his day.
00:08If I was leaving all alone, never to see you again
00:24And say that away, a prophecy
00:39All the people in the morning
00:49I tell them all about you, my pretty darlin'
01:00But they don't sing love songs in Cumberland County
01:17And I could play on my guitar
01:26To drinkers in the bar
01:35And tell them all about the way I'm feelin'
01:48But it's hard to go it truly
02:00When you're born in Cumberland County
02:09Where love is just a bird
02:17That brings the children
02:27I can't find no one like
02:37In an empty photograph
02:46People who tie their chains about me
02:59So you take me, and I'll take you
03:09We'll turn the music way down low
03:20But they don't sing love songs in Cumberland County
03:37You feed me, and I'll feed you
03:46We'll fill our pie like seagulls do
03:56And fit all the broken pieces together
04:09But here the song track got overgrown by weeds
04:13And they started sliding down the big dipper
04:16Of marijuana leaves or mushroom stalks
04:19Or something else from Frankie's collection

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