Frankie Laine Cry Of The Wild Goose Lyrics

Cry Of The Wild Goose Lyrics

The Cry Of the Wild Goose

-Artist: Frankie Laine as sung on "Hell Bent
For Leather": Columbia CS 8415
-peak Billboard position # 1 for 2 weeks in
1950
-competing version by Tennessee Ernie Ford peaked at #15
-Words and
Music by Terry Gilkyson


My heart knows what the wild goose
knows
And I must go where the wild goose goes
Wild goose, brother goose,
which is best?
A wanderin' fool or a heart at rest?

Tonight I heard
the wild goose cry
Hangin' north in the lonely sky
Tried to sleep, it
warn't no use
'cause I am a brother to the old wild
goose

CHORUS
(Oh, my heart knows what the wild goose knows)
(And I
must go where the wild goose goes)
Wild goose, brother goose, which is
best?
A wanderin' fool or a heart at rest?

Woman was kind and true to
me
She thinks she loves me, more fool she!
She's got a love that ain't no
use
To love a brother of the old wild goose

CHORUS

The cabin
is warm and the snow is deep
And I got a woman who lies asleep
She'll
wake up tomorrow's dawn
And find, poor critter, that her man is
gone

(Oh, my heart knows what the wild goose knows)
(And I must go
where the wild goose goes)
(Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?)
(A
wanderin' fool or a heart at rest?)

Let me fly, let me fly, let me fly
away

Spring is comin' and the ice will break
And I can't linger for a
woman's sake
She'll see a shadow pass overhead
And she'll find a feather
'side her bed

CHORUS


Transcribed by Robin Hood

These
lyrics were transcribed from the specific recording mentioned above
and do
not necessarily correspond with lyrics from other recordings, sheet
music,
songbooks or lyrics printed on album jackets.