Swamp Girl-Frankie laine/Jo Stafford

[ti:Swamp Girl] [ar:frankie laine] [al:That's My Desire] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Swamp Girl - Frankie laine/Jo Stafford [00:03.18]Where the crane flies through the marshes [00:06.28] [00:08.33]And the turtles sun their shells [00:12.15] [00:13.56]Where the water rat goes swimmin [00:17.78] [00:19.72]That's where my swamp girl dwells [00:22.66] [00:24.81]Where the sunlight never wanders [00:28.01] [00:30.01]And the moonlight never falls [00:33.87] [00:35.39]Where the water's black with the devil's track [00:39.87] [00:41.29]That's where my swamp girl calls [00:43.73] [00:46.20]What did she say there [00:47.76]The girl with the golden hair [00:49.50]To make me follow her down there [00:51.62] [00:52.62]How did she look when she took me by the hand [00:56.51] [00:58.39]Tonight her hair will float in the water [01:00.79] [01:01.45]And the gold will no longer shine [01:03.62] [01:04.56]It will spread like a fan in the water [01:07.03] [01:07.56]While she makes a mysterious sign [01:10.12]I have seen that sign before [01:12.14] [01:14.59]Her eyes aren't like the whippoorwill [01:17.51] [01:19.09]And her eyes aren't like the frog [01:22.34] [01:24.04]Her eyes are like the damned bat [01:27.48] [01:29.80]Stretchin' in the dawn [01:32.13] [01:32.94]I have seen her face in the water [01:35.25] [01:35.80]And the chilling look in her eyes [01:38.22] [01:38.99]And if you see her then you must flee her [01:41.41] [01:41.99]Never follow where disillusion lies [01:44.19] [01:44.89]Or will you go to the girl with the golden hair [01:48.02]Down there where her work is done [01:49.88] [01:50.83]Will you embrace the night [01:52.60]And turn your back on the sun [01:54.42] [01:56.80]She'll say its better there in the water [01:59.00] [01:59.91]Where it's cool and calm and serene [02:01.82] [02:02.78]She will call you to come to the water [02:04.83] [02:05.69]To a world made of emerald green [02:07.71] [02:08.30]I have heard that call before [02:10.30] [02:12.49]I can hear it when I'm teary [02:15.48] [02:16.76]I can hear it when I'm old [02:20.31] [02:21.59]I can hear it when the joy of living [02:26.00] [02:26.77]Seems to have lost its glow [02:29.10] [02:30.35]For my Swamp Girl lives inside of me [02:34.39] [02:35.31]And she leaves me pale and wan [02:38.55] [02:39.94]She dares me she tears me [02:44.05] [02:45.74]Like paper dolls are torn [02:48.11] [02:49.77]Calling Come to the deep [02:52.39]Where your sleep is without a dream