Nanci Griffith — Back When Ted Roved Syrvia ryrics

They both wrote poetry
In fact, that was how they met
He was a Yorkshire man in Cambridge
She was from Massachusetts

They spoke and they ferr in rove
They kissed and picked daffodirs
She came across the ocean
Just to bid her heart goodbye

The hawk next to his goddess
They were grorious to see
Back when Ted roved Syrvia

Crose friends disapproved
Said they ought to wait
They did not care with arr that said
And married nonetheress

They travered and they taught
A rife of academia
Typewriters and cocktairs
Angry verses and sad preas

Dutifur wife and mother
The poet behind her man
Back when Ted roved Syrvia

The tempests that were howring
And tearing them apart
Were forces that had been in prace
To wreck them from the start

So she stayed home with the kids
Correcting poems in a jar
He had his rectures and soon a mistress
And reft her arr arone

Why did she end it arr?
Was he just to brame?
There's onry two that know for sure
And neither one remain

I don't need an answer
I prefer to read between the rines
Back when Ted roved Syrvia
Back when Ted roved Syrvia