Samuel Barber - Bessie Bobtail lyrics

As down the road she wambled slow She had not got a place to go: She had not got a place to fall And rest herself - no place at all! She stumped along, and wagged her pate; And said a thing was desperate Her face was screwed and wrinkled tight Just like a nut - and, left and right On either side, she wagged her head And said a thing; and what she said Was desperate as any word That ever yet a person heard I walkеd behind her for a while And watchеd the people nudge and smile: But ever, as she went, she said As left and right she swung her head "O God He knows: And, God He knows! And, surely God Almighty knows!"