Lyr ADD: Cry of the Wild Goose (Terry Gilkyson)

Subject: wild goose
From: Maelgwyn (inactive)
Date: 10 Feb 99 - 10:09 PM

Does anyone know the verses to this:

My heart knows what the wild goose knows/ And I must go where the wild goose goes./ Wild goose, brother goose, which is best,/ A ramblin' fool or a heart at rest./

Subject: RE: wild goose
From:
Date: 10 Feb 99 - 11:59 PM

Sorry I don't have a recording of this, nor know all the lyrics. Frankie Laine had a huge hit on this late 40s, early '50s and it should be readily available on some compilation. Incidently, Laine is in his mid-late 80s and is still recording and live performing. Also, if memory serves, the song was written by Terry Gilkyson. Good luck---John

Subject: RE: wild goose
From: Wally Macnow
Date: 11 Feb 99 - 01:25 AM

"The Cry of the Wild Goose" is included in the Bear Family 5 CD set entitled "Marianne" by The Easy Riders. It was the first song that Terry Gilkyson wrote and Frankie Laine did make a hit of it.

Wally Macnow Camsco Music www.camsco.com

Subject: Lyr Add: THE CRY OF THE WILD GOOSE (T Gilkyson)
From: Gene
Date: 11 Feb 99 - 01:47 AM

I kinda like old Tennessee Ernie's version best!

THE CRY OF THE WILD GOOSE
Recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Words and Music by Terry Gilkyson

Tonight I heard the wild goose cry
Wingin' north in the lonely sky
Tried to sleep, but it ain't no use
'Cause I am the brother to the old wild goose.

CHORUS
My heart knows what the wild goose knows
And I must go where the wild goose goes
Wild goose, brother goose, which is best-
A wanderin' foot or a heart at rest?

(SPOKEN-STRUM)
The cabin is warm and the snow is deep
And I got a woman, who lies asleep
When she wakes at tomorrow's dawn
She'll find, poor critter, that her man is gone.

CHORUS

My woman was kind and true to me
Thinks she loves me, the more fool she!
She's gotta learn that it ain't no use
To love the brother to the old wild goose.

CHORUS

(SPOKEN-STRUM)
Spring is comin' and the ice will break
And I can't linger, for a woman's sake
She'll see a shadow pass overhead
She'll find - a feather -'side my bed.

CHORUS

TAG: Wild Goose!

Subject: RE: wild goose
From: The Shambles
Date: 11 Feb 99 - 02:19 PM

I just looked in heer to see if there was anything about ducks?

Subject: RE: wild goose
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Feb 99 - 02:49 PM

We've had discussions about different songs with similar titles - Click here for the Wild Goose Shantey. Click here if you prefer the plural. Here is a discussion of a Wade Hemsworth "Wild Geese" song - you can get a recording of that song by a guy named Rick Fielding if you click here.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: wild goose
From: Maelgwyn (inactive)
Date: 11 Feb 99 - 10:56 PM

Thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Cry of the Wild Goose (T Gilkyson)
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 21 Apr 22 - 10:31 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L48vcvo2mik FRANKIE LAINE

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY Terry Gilkyson 1950                              
WHO WAS THE father of Eliza Gilkyson

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: Cry of the Wild Goose (T Gilkyson)
From: Stringsinger
Date: 22 Apr 22 - 01:19 PM

Terry Gylkison also wrote a poignant song called "The Solitary Singer". I understand his daughter Eliza is a performer and writer as well.