Name: Gabriela
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Description: The one that got away...

Gabriela

from Nights Like These by Doug Osborne

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The one that got away...

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Gabriela - Words and Music by Douglas Osborne

Matted hair and dirty feet
a dress you sewed from a sheet
worked the fields in the hot summer light
danced a dream when the fire burned bright

you somehow grabbed me, I thought your eyes were the thing
but I stopped cold dead when I heard you sing

Gabriela, cinnamon skin and scent of clove
I’m caught hard in the web you wove
to know you and want you I must always forgive
a butterfly tied to the ground cannot live

Gabriella
Gabriella
Gabriella

I almost died when you woke me from sleep
and we worked up a sweat in the Amazon deep
when I found my place I hoped you would stay
then I set my stake and you just walked away

I would give an arm, I would give anything
if you’d dance by the fire, and your sweet lips would sing

Gabriela, cinnamon skin and scent of clove
I’m caught hard in the web you wove
to know you and want you I must always forgive
a butterfly tied to the ground cannot live

Gabriella
Gabriella
Gabriella

© 2015 Douglas W Osborne, redandslow music, BMI All Rights Reserved

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from Nights Like These, track released September 4, 2015
John Kibler: Acoustic Bass

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