When I Was A Freeport And You Were The Main Drag - Laura Nyro, Arif Mardin

You took my heart, misery.

You taught me blues

Well I got a lot of patience baby, that’s a lot of patience to lose.

I’m crying

I’m mad at my country, now I’ve been treated bad

When I was a freeport and you were the main drag

Broken blues, I just don’t know.

Little bird flying by my window,

take me when you go

I looking at these times and its bound to drive me mad

When I was a freeport and you were the main drag

What did I do?

Everybody’s putting me down, I keep running but the law kept

coming around

So fare thee well, happiness, cause I’ve got blues

And I got a lot of patience baby, that’s a lot of patience to lose

I’m a woman waiting for due time, I’ve been treated bad

When I was a freeport and you were the main drag