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 MY WOMAN

I want my Woman before I die, Her they stole from my arms with their Christian lie,— I want my Woman before I die! To feel her blood in my heart again, On my lips the storm of her kisses rain; Love-lusting, passionate, undefiled, Ans'ring the cry and the call of the wild,— I want my Woman before I die, I want my Woman before I die!

I want my Woman before I die, Her they stole from my arms with their Christian lie,— I want my Woman before I die! To see the flame in her cheeks arise, And the fires of love in her glowing eyes; I want her now as in the days of old Ere the law was writ or the lie was told,— I want my Woman before I die, I want my Woman before I die!

I want my Woman before I die, Her they stole from my arms with their Christian lie,— I want my Woman before I die! To hold her now as I held her then, On the shore of the lake, in a forest glen, Before the days of the primal curse, By the laws that root in the universe, Her they stole from my arms with their Christian lie,— I want my Woman before I die, I want my Woman before I die! —23—