Waiting Girl
I hope to love a New York girl
For she sat alone and sad
So I pledge her, my heart
And a union that would last
But slowly she shook her head
And so my hopes died
She was waiting for her lover
Who had gone to East?
A girl like you I said
Should wait for no man
Your lover must be steel
To be away for long
Again she shook her head
And then I had to leave
To cry and cry at night
For a beauty wasting away
I saw her years later
Her lover was still away
And there she sat as before
Hoping and looking East.
Photograph by sixtwelve
