Garry Kirby and Bill White : - Little Gerrie

from State of the Heart by Bill White

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lyrics

my name is gerald galpin
i married a flapper in the wild and roaring twenties
she gave me a daughter and i named her after me

Little Gerri
she was my tinkerbell
but her mother was in a class below me
so i had her committed to the mad house

i was an officer on the enterprise
and I fought the japs in world war two
then I remarried and I sired a worthy brood

Little Gerri
was accepted by her new family
and she loved her elegant cousins

but when the war ended
Gerri married a gunner from my ship
so i cut off the flow of the family chips

living on hot dogs and sleeping in the park
Little Gerri was married to a drunkard who beat her
When the jap bounded him in the battle of the midway
and we lay in the dark

i divorced my second wife and I married my secretary
who gave me twins and a blind son
they are all successful now and my time is done

Little Gerri
never knew that her mother lived to an old age
in the mad house just 12 miles north of the home
where Little Gerri raised five kids alone

And in the mad house the mother knows
Little Gerri never knew Mommy was
just 12miles from her home

Little Gerri never knew her Mommy was
just 12miles from home

Until the day she died
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew
Little Gerri never knew

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from State of the Heart, released February 25, 2022
Words by: Bill White
Sung by: Bill White
Music and arrangement by: Garry Kirby (

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