K M Walker

My One True Heart (Annie's Song)

Have you seen my one true heart?
I know not where it's hiding,
I search the world find it's home,
Where true love is abiding.

I would not give it to a knight,
Pledged to war where it's hiding,
The arrow writes his hero song,

But endeth our love story. (But endeth our love story)


I would not give it to a bard,
Who sings the angels proud,
His siren calls too many hearts,
And mine lost in the crowd. (And mine lost in the crowd.)

 

I would not give it to a king,
Whose duty is his life,
I’d the mistress always be,
His country - his true wife. (His country - his true wife)

 

Have you seen my one true heart?
I know not where it’s hiding,
I search the world to find it’s home,
Where true love is abiding.

 

I placed it in my Mother’s hand,
Her body growing cold,
She said it still had songs to sing,
Brave and true and bold. (Brave and true and bold)

 

I laid it in my baby’s bed,
When all his breath was gone,
I begged my beating too would cease,
Yet cursed me on and on. (Yet cursed me on and on.)

 

Have you seen my one true heart?
I know not where it’s hiding,
I search the world to find it’s home,
Where true love is abiding.