I RECALL A GYPSY WOMAN    (intro) (midi)    (sample)

 

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1. Silver coins that jingle-jangle, fancy shoes that dance in time,

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    all the secrets of her dark eyes, the lady'd sing       a gypsy rhyme.

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    Yellow clover in tangled blossoms, in a meadow silky green,

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    where she held me to her bosom, just a boy       of seventeen.

          

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I recall a gypsy woman, silver spangles in her eyes,

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Ivory skin against the moonlight,

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and the taste      of life's sweet wine.

       

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2. Soft breezes blow from fragrant meadows,

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    stir the darkness in my mind.

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    Oh gentle woman, you sleep beside me,

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    and little know       who haunts my mind.

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    Gypsy lady, I hear your laughter, and the dances in my head,

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    while my tender wife and babies slumber softly     in their beds.

 

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    (Waylon Jennings)