hesitating beauty

Singer:billy bragg

for your sparkling cocky smile i've walked a million miles

begging you to come and wed me in the spring

why do you my dear delay

what makes you laugh and turn away

you're a hesitating beauty

nora lee

well i know that you are itching to get married

nora lee

and i know how i'm twitching for the same thing

nora lee

by the stars and clouds above

we could spend our lives in love

you're a hesitating beauty

nora lee

we can build a house and home where the flowers come to bloom

around our yard

i'll nail a fence so high

that the boys with peeping eyes

cannot see that angel face

my hesitating beauty

nora lee

well i know that you are itching to get married

nora lee

and i know how i'm twitching for the same thing

nora lee

by the stars and clouds above

we can spend our lives in love

if you quit your hesitating

nora lee

we can ramble hand in hand across the grasses of our land

i'll kiss you for each leaf on every tree

we can bring our kids to play

where the dry leaves blow today

if you quit your hesitating

nora lee

well i know that you are itching to get married

nora lee

and i know how i'm twitching for the same thing

nora lee

by the stars and clouds above

we could spend our lives in love

if you quit your hesitating

nora lee

Lyric Context: hesitating beauty - billy bragg