Featured on: My Lifelong Love
Collaborator: Dorothy Parker (poem)
Song Type: art song, one-minute song, soprano
Associated Artists: Laura Osnes, Andréa Burns
Georgia wishes to thank the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for authorizing this use of Dorothy Parker’s work.
Lyrics:
Once, when I was young a true,
Someone left me sad–
Broke my brittle heart in two;
And that is very bad.
Love is for unlucky folk,
Love is but a curse.
Once there was a heart I broke;
And that, I think, is worse.
