09 Born Of My Lover (acoustic)
A pensive ballad, of a fathers musings upon the future of his girl-child daughter
Evocative acoustic balladeer
Story behind the song
Ennis is my daughter (it’s a Celtic name. Her full name is Ennis Siobhan Cochran.) I wrote this song about her when she was about twelve years old – Blonde hair, blue eyes, a few freckles… and just darling.
That summer, my daughter was a little girl – but by the end of winter, seemed more a young woman. My little girl was gone – in her place, an unfolding mystery…
- Alan Kim Cochran
Lyrics
A bedeviled smile for an impish tease
Blue eyes looking so much like mine
Born of my lover, a daughter to please
And you’ll be a woman, in time
You’ll be a woman, in time
Stallion rampant, but a woman’s heart
Constitution of leather and steel
My daughter, you’re hardy and sturdy and smart
Yet you can’t always do as you feel
‘Can’t always do as you feel
And I was there when you first saw the world,
And all the wide world first saw you
Making your way, as the birthing unfurled
‘Twas then we were no longer two
Then we were no longer two
Stallion rampant, but a woman’s heart
Constitution of leather and steel
My daughter, you’re hardy and sturdy and smart
Yet you can’t always do as you feel
‘Can’t always do as you feel
And, where will you go, as the years fall away?
What blossoms of forgotten spring?
Will you run wild, hold fast to the way?
And what will your summertimes bring?
What will your summertimes bring?
Stallion rampant, but a woman’s heart
Constitution of leather and steel
My daughter, you’re hardy and sturdy and smart
Yet you can’t always do as you feel
We can’t always do as we feel
A bedeviled smile for an impish tease
Blue eyes looking so much like mine
Born of my lover, a daughter to please
And you’ll be a woman, in time
You’ll be a woman, in time
You’ll be a woman, in time…
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