Hi,

Here are the lyrics I could hear. Questionable/unknown parts are in brackets.


PUNJABI GIRL
(Vin Garbutt)

1. Her father left the Punjab in the war of '47,
A boy of two whose parents knew too well why they were leavin'
A nation and a land divided, many families grievin'
For those who have to lose so much for what they do believe in.

CHORUS: I never thought I'd fall for someone from another world
'Til I met and fell in love with a dark Punjabi girl.

2. Her parents moved to Acklam back in 1969.
Very soon a 'Boro moon shined on this love of mine.
I met her in the Linthorpe Road, her hair a raven shade.
So sweet and shy, she caught my eye; the likes I'd never seen.

3. Her eyes were bright and black as night, like jet on Whitby shore.
Her cheek possessed a patina no tulip ever bore.
Her loveliness and Eastern dress placed others in the shade,
But never yet did I regret the choice of this dark maid.

4. When we did declare our love to parents unsuspecting,
Her father said she'd see him dead if she was disrespecting
The ways of old, that crock of gold, that was her own tradition.
He'd bade her to treat Western ways with ultimate suspicion.

5. Likewise when my mother found a brown girl I had chosen,
With great distress she stressed that there were white girls by the dozen
To hold me and to care for me, but I could not be shaken.
The heart I'd lost in Linthorpe Road had been forever taken.

6. So now we live in Stockton town, our future long decided,
Just one great sadness from the past, our families divided.
My parents they can not forgive and hers try to forget her,
Though we have children of our own who'll make the future better.
There is a part of each of us permanently grievin'
For those who have to lose so much for what they do believe in.