TAKE A CHANCE ON ON LOVE   

When I met you you were a cigarette girl
Hustling for drinks and for tips
A stranger down from the graveyard world
A fresh face out on the strip 

You could see I was broken
In poverty you might say
Left bereft by loves only token
Left alone by those loves I’d betrayed 

All through the port and the battery
The sun sank low in retreat
Couldn’t see what it was
You came here for
Till you spoke my name
So slow in the street 

Take a chance on love, a chance on love
You said it right out loud
A chance on love, a chance on love
So loud inside the crowd 

Geraniums high on the balcony  
Bursting in the hot June sun
Seem to stay you’ll stay with me
And I’m so glad you’ve come 

And when I hear Billie Holiday  
You know she gives me a sign
When she sings “Them There Eyes”
I know you’re gonna stay mine 

Your soul is bigger than the sky
The music sounds so sweet
But don’t ask why, don’t ask why 

Let storm clouds gather over me  
Four winds blow round my door
Let these strangers come and go
I don’t need them no more

Take a chance on love, a chance on love
You said it right out loud
A chance on love, a chance on love
So loud inside the crowd