| My heart knows what the wild goose knows,
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| I must go where the wild goose goes.
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| Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?
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| A wanderin’foot or a heart at rest?
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| Tonight I heard the wild goose cry,
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| Wingin’north in the lonely sky.
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| Tried to sleep, it weren’t no use,
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| 'Cause I am a brother to the old wild goose,
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| (Oh, my heart knows what the wild goose knows,)
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| (And I must go where the wild goose goes.)
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| (Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?)
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| (A wanderin’foot or a heart at rest?)
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| Woman was kind and true to me.
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| She thinks she loves me, the more fool she.
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| She’s got a love that ain’t no use,
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| To love a brother of the old wild goose.
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| (My heart knows what the wild goose knows,)
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| (And I must go where the wild goose goes.)
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| (Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?)
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| (A wanderin’foot or a heart at rest?)
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| (Oh, you wild goose.)
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| The cabin is warm and the snow is deep,
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| I got a woman who lies asleep.
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| She’ll wake at tomorrow’s dawn,
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| She’ll find, poor critter, that her man is gone.
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| (Oh, you wild goose.)
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| My heart knows what the wild goose knows,
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| I must go where the wild goose goes.
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| Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?
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| A wanderin’foot or a heart at rest?
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| Let me fly, let me fly, let me fly away.
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| Spring is comin’and the ice will break,
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| I can’t linger for a woman’s sake.
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| She’ll see a shadow pass overhead.
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| She’ll find my feathers beside my bed.
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| (My heart knows what the wild goose knows,)
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| (And I must go where the wild goose goes.)
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| Wild goose, brother goose, which is best?
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| A wanderin’foot or a heart at rest?
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| (Wild goose, wild goose, wild goose, wild goose.) |