The Starlings: Music & Lyrics

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She was fifteen when she headed out of Woodland
Like the hoboes that her mama fed sometimes
Up ‘til then she’d been waited on as gentry
And she fantasized of movin’ down the line
Hopped a railcar just a ways, was for minutes not for days
But she knew she’d be leaving just the same

After growing up wild and rich with freedom
She could not settle with a high school love
Thought she’d go get some money out of daddy
And to play with the flame that lingered on
But the way back home was gone, so down south she traveled on
To Tempe, where she tried to finish school

Geraldine, I don’t know where you’re goin’
Geraldine, I don’t know where you’ve been
But the smile in your eyes that nobody can disguise
Shows to me how you journeys came and went

Somewhere south there is no word of reckoning
Except four names she had passed along in time
Something snapped and she flew on the airlines
And she hoped it would ease her troubled mind
Some great stories she had told and her eyes would shine like gold
And I know that your secret’s safe with mine

Geraldine, your eyes are far away now
Geraldine, your life was all but spent
And to sing you in a song helps your son to carry on
All the dreams and adventures you had meant