THE BLACK LADY is on Dave Gibb's album "Looking Good, Feeling Better," 2001.

Here's what I transcribed from a sound sample found at Woven Wheat Whispers:

I lived my life as we'd always lived since time began to flow.
As a child, my mother taught me all a woman needs to know
To help me find our way though life, raise daughters if she can,
So the knowledge passed on to me can be passed along again.
If I'd looked into my future, I never would have believed
What it held in store for me,
'Cause here I am where I'm always cold, so cold and so alone,
And I'm doomed to walk this darkness. My soul goes sailing home.

When this white man came to us with his sparkling blue-eyed smile,
A grandee of the empire with aristocratic style,
He told us tales of foreign lands and his home across the sea,
And I remember how he stole my heart when he turned to smile at me,
And he promised all the earth to me if I....