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Jenny Armstrong - Alice and Jesse lyrics
They lived at the start of a new century When New York was horses and carriage Alice and Jessie were driven to school Ina white four-in-hand by a coachman Summers they went to the country To play in the fields and the flowers The stories thy heard around the campfire Told of princesses locked up in towers Alice loved Indians dancing And Jesse would kiss her step-mother Alice went the way of the girls in her circle And Jesse the way of the other Alice was married in Baltimore In a long dress of satin and pearls Jesse she ran with a dark gypsy man And he carried her over the world Alice raised children in Galesburg, St. Paul, White Bear Lake and Winnetka She called upon F, Scot and Zelda and Danced To a tune of a waltz in the evening While Jesse’s hair it grew down to her waist And kept right on growing all over the place And she danced to the clapping of hands and of bells And a guitar that played “Angelina” Alice was married in Baltimore In a long dress of satin and pearls Jesse she ran with a dark gypsy man And he carried her over the world Alice’s children, the youngest my mother, Grew up with wide dreams and professions Of quiet reform and carrying on Reaching for art and perfection Well Jesse she flew by the stars in the night Her bright black-eyed husband her heart’s own delight He was a king with a sky for a tent and a bed That they shared underneath the red wagon. Alice was married in Baltimore In a long dress of satin and pearls Jesse she ran with a dark gypsy man And he carried her over the world The letter said Jesse was camped for the spring Singing and stealing in east Tennessee She spoke of childbed, or heart’s blood, of pain And could her own sister come see her again. Alice left in the morning on a train heading south, Left the children in the care of aunt Reba. She stepped off at Lovelace and took the north track To Sullivan Garden to meet her The streets were all silent; the dogs were all still A wagon was moving too slow up the hill She stepped in behind, beside the dark man Who saw her and called for the horses to stand. “You’re Alice,” he said, and she spoke with here eyes. “You’re Alice,” he said and he touched her. “She wanted you here, she spoke of two girls Who ran in the park wearing ribbons and curls.” “Yes, I’m Alice,” she said as the tears filled her eyes. “I wanted to see her your beauty, your bride. I loved her, I loved her, I loved her. I wept That night that you took Jesse from me. I’m Alice; I married in Baltimore In a long dress of satin and pearls But Jesse she ran with my heart in her hand And she it carried her over the world.” I wasn’t given Jesse’s guitar I stole it from out Grampa’s closet How else do you pass on a gypsy guitar With hand whittled pegs and tin saddle? Alice was married in Baltimore In a long dress of satin and pearls Jesse she ran with a dark gypsy man And he carried her over the world |
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