Back When Ted Loved Sylvia

LELA ANN ETHERIDGE

They both wrote poetry
In fact, that was how they met
He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge
She was from Massachusetts

They spoke and they fell in love
They kissed and picked daffodils
She came across the ocean
Just to bid her heart goodbye

The hawk next to his goddess
They were glorious to see
Back when Ted loved Sylvia

Close friends disapproved
Said they ought to wait
They did not care with all that said
And married none the less

They traveled and they taught
A life of academia
Typewriters and cocktails
Angry verses and sad pleas

Dutiful wife and mother
The poet behind her man
Back when Ted loved Sylvia

The tempests that were howling
And tearing them apart
Were forces that had been in place
To wreck them from the start

So she stayed home with the kids
Collecting poems in a jar
He had his lectures and soon a mistress
And left her all alone

Why did she end it all?
Was he just to blame?
There's only two that know for sure
And neither one remain

I don't need an answer
I prefer to read between the lines
Back when Ted loved Sylvia
Back when Ted loved Sylvia

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¿Cuándo fue lanzada la canción “Back When Ted Loved Sylvia” por Nanci Griffith?
La canción Back When Ted Loved Sylvia fue lanzada en 2004, en el álbum “Hearts in Mind”.
¿Quién compuso la canción “Back When Ted Loved Sylvia” de Nanci Griffith?
La canción “Back When Ted Loved Sylvia” de Nanci Griffith fue compuesta por LELA ANN ETHERIDGE.

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