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.