Back When Ted Loved Sylvia-Nanci Griffith

[ti:Back When Ted Loved Sylvia] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:Hearts In Mind (U.S. Version)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Back When Ted Loved Sylvia - Nanci Griffith (南西·葛瑞芬) [00:10.93]They both wrote poetry [00:13.36]In fact that was how they met [00:18.69]He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge [00:25.09]She was from Massachusetts [00:28.02]They spoke and they fell in love [00:34.71]They kissed and picked daffodils [00:39.84]She came across the ocean [00:45.61]Just to bid her heart goodbye [00:50.18]The hawk next to his goddess [00:56.37]They were glorious to see [01:00.99]Back when Ted loved Sylvia [01:07.47]Close friends disapproved [01:16.94]Said they ought to wait [01:21.51]They did not care with all that said [01:28.11]And married nonetheless [01:32.10]They traveled and they taught [01:37.13]A life of academia [01:42.28]Typewriters and cocktails [01:48.78]Angry verses and sad pleas [01:53.12]Dutiful wife and mother [01:58.67]The poet behind her man [02:03.61]Back when Ted loved Sylvia [02:09.88]The tempests that were howling [02:19.11]And tearing them apart [02:24.81]Were forces that had been in place [02:30.50]To wreck them from the start [02:34.18]So she stayed home with the kids [02:49.96]Collecting poems in a jar [02:54.82]He had his lectures and soon a mistress [03:02.19]And left her all alone [03:05.20]Why did she end it all [03:10.33]Was he just to blame [03:16.16]There only two that know for sure [03:22.17]And neither one remain [03:26.39]I don't need an answer [03:31.97]I prefer to read between the lines [03:36.52]Back when Ted loved Sylvia [03:43.24]Back when Ted loved Sylvia