Barber: 3 Songs, Op. 2: III. Bessie Bobtail

Текст песни Jennifer Larmore - Barber: 3 Songs, Op. 2: III. Bessie Bobtail

As down the road she wobbled slow
She had not got a place to go
She had not got a place to fall
And rest herself, no place at all
She stopped along and wiped her pate
And said a thing was desperate

Her face was screwed and wrinkled tight
Just like a nut, and left and right
On either side, she wagged her head
And said a thing, and what she said
Was desperate as any word
That ever yet a person heard

I walked behind her for a while
And watched the people nudge and smile
But ever as she went she said
As left and right she swung her head
"Oh, God, He knows
And God, He knows
And surely, God Almighty knows
Oh, God, He knows
And God, He knows
And surely, God Almighty knows
And God, He knows"