North Country Girl

I spend a long time waiting
For what I don't know
Is someone going to come along
And say it's time to go?
I may not be a patient man
I guess you'd say it's true
I don't wait for anyone
Like I've waited for you

Another lonely nighttime
Becomes another day
Maybe it's the right time
To get up on my way
Another velvet morning
And yet another mile
I've come such a long way
Just to see you smile

Up there in the North Country
There used to be a fair
All the people on the way
Said they they saw your way up there
Dancing to a mandolin
In a little Village Square
Gypsy dress and barefoot
With flowers in your hair

I came up beside you
You just turned away
I left my heart inside you
Way back in the day
If you do not want me
Tell me to go away
Up here in the North Country
It's just another day

The moon is on the rise tonight
The sun will come again
Had to find out for myself
If you remember when
We never needed anyone
Except for me and you
Without you beside me
I just don't know what to do

If love is forever
Than our day will come
We'll wake up together
Before the rising sun
Go down by the river
Where we sing and pray
Guess I can forgive her
For running away

And we will never forget
How we have been blessed
Sundown in a coastal town
Somewhere way out west
There's a little place I know
Right down by the sea
It don't matter where we go
If you go there with me