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When Spring’s soft murmurs broke the stillness of the rolling hills, He took his guitar outside to welcome days of daffodils. His music wound throughout the pines in greening melodies, The gypsy lady heard them and was stirred to fantasies. Across the daisy meadow, his tunes reached out to her at night, On his front porch she could see him bathed in yellow cabin light. He played upon her heartstrings with chords he never planned; She was his gypsy lady ... he was her music man. At night, she softy crept into the nearby forest glade, With moonbeams woven in her hair, she danced the notes he played. He watched her whirling, twirling form reach out to him in love, But bound by love to another, he cursed the stars above. Each night she gathered up his songs in the folds of her gypsy skirt, Then shook them out as a healing salve for her heart’s deep, aching hurt. Danced among his guitar songs, wore his music like a shawl, The image of his smiling face was painful to recall. When sunny brightness swept across the daisy hills he pined, While, cat-like, memories of her slipped in and out his mind. Each night her presence in the glade made him sing a sadder tune, ‘Cause he belonged to another; she belonged to the moon. She danced throughout his moonlit dreams, he knew his thoughts were wrong, Though he was bound to another, his heart sang a different song. She knew she could not have him, his ring showed he was wed, At night while she lay lonely, he was warm in another’s bed. Years passed, the gypsy’s youth was gone, but not her love for him, His fingers stiff, he still played on though her moonlit dance grew dim. He strummed out songs of passion with a calloused, shaky hand, She was still his gypsy lady ... he was still her music man. One April’s eve those piney hills lay bathed in quiet peace, His guitar sang to her no more, his soul found sweet release. From the agony of loving her through years of silent pain, Now daisies pushed up through the sod in a gentle spring-time rain. With silent gypsy sadness, mourning love’s unkindly loss, She lay upon his sun-warmed grave, head pillowed by cool moss; Tears glistened on her grief-worn face, her heart burst from the pain, In death, she’d be his gypsy lady ... and he’d be her music man.
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