Golden Earrings

by Nina Simone

From the album: Forbidden Fruit

Track 17 of 21 on Forbidden Fruit (1961).

Duration: 4:47

Forbidden Fruit cover art

Lyrics for Golden Earrings

Theres a story the gypsies know is true That when your love wears golden earrings He belongs to you An old love story thats known to very few But if you wear those golden earrings Love will come to you By the burning fire, they will glow with every coal You will hear desire whisper low inside your soul So be my gypsy Make love your guiding light And let this pair of golden earrings Cast their spell tonight By the burning fire, they will glow with every coal You will hear desire whisper low inside your soul So be my little gypsy Make love your guiding light And let this pair of golden earrings Cast their spell tonight Cast their spell tonight Let this pair of golden earrings Cast their spell tonight

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More from Forbidden Fruit

  1. Rags and Old Iron
  2. No Good Man
  3. Gin House Blues
  4. I'll Look Around
  5. I Love to Love
  6. Work Song
  7. Where Can I Go Without You
  8. Just Say I Love Him
  9. Memphis in June
  10. Forbidden Fruit
  11. Porgy I Is Your Woman Now
  12. Baubles Bangles and Beads
  13. Gimme a Pigfoot
  14. Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye
  15. Spring Is Here
  16. Lonesome Valley
  17. Golden Earrings
  18. My Ship
  19. 'Tain't Nobody's Biz-ness If I Do
  20. Try a Little Tenderness
  21. Od Yesh Homa