Swamp Girl-Frankie laine

[ti:Swamp Girl] [ar:frankie laine] [al:The Great Frankie Laine Volume 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Swamp Girl - Frankie laine [00:03.20]Where the crane flies through the marshes [00:06.50] [00:08.46]And the turtles sun their shells [00:12.26] [00:13.92]Where the water rat goes swimmin [00:17.94] [00:20.02]That's where my swamp girl dwells [00:23.18] [00:25.05]Where the sunlight never wanders [00:28.44] [00:30.36]And the moonlight never falls [00:34.21] [00:35.76]Where the water's black with the devil's track [00:40.67] [00:41.79]That's where my swamp girl calls [00:45.36] [00:46.71]What did she say there [00:48.22]The girl with the golden hair [00:49.90]To make me follow her down there [00:51.79] [00:52.93]How did she look when she took me by the hand [00:56.86] [00:59.09]Tonight her hair will float in the water [01:01.27] [01:02.11]And the gold will no longer shine [01:04.01] [01:05.27]It will spread like a fan in the water [01:08.18]While she makes a mysterious sign [01:10.27] [01:11.15]I have seen that sign before [01:12.65] [01:15.30]Her eyes aren't like the whippoorwill [01:19.00] [01:20.02]And her eyes aren't like the frog [01:22.58] [01:24.98]Her eyes are like the damned bat [01:28.56] [01:30.80]Stretchin' in the dawn [01:32.84] [01:33.86]I have seen her face in the water [01:35.97] [01:36.74]And the chilling look in her eyes [01:39.25] [01:40.02]And if you see her then you must flee her [01:43.14]Never follow where disillusion lies [01:45.47] [01:45.99]Or will you go to the girl with the golden hair [01:48.62] [01:49.17]Down there where her work is done [01:51.46]Will you embrace the night [01:53.87]And turn your back on the sun [01:55.64] [01:58.14]She'll say its better there in the water [02:00.26] [02:01.20]Where it's cool and calm and serene [02:04.17]She will call you to come to the water [02:06.75]To a world made of emerald green [02:09.77]I have heard that call before [02:11.56] [02:13.96]I can hear it when I'm teary [02:17.14] [02:18.29]I can hear it when I'm old [02:21.76] [02:23.13]I can hear it when the joy of living [02:27.80] [02:28.43]Seems to have lost its glow [02:30.91] [02:32.19]For my Swamp Girl lives inside of me [02:36.01] [02:37.05]And she leaves me pale and wan [02:40.36] [02:41.74]She dares me she tears me [02:47.87]Like paper dolls are torn [02:50.49] [02:51.63]Calling Come to the deep [02:53.87]Where your sleep is without a dream