Lyrics: Allen Ginsberg
Music: Allen Ginsberg
Arranger: Allen Ginsberg
My green valentine, my green valentine
What do I know of my green valentine?
I found a strange wild leaf on a vine
Shaped like a heart and as green as was mine
My green valentine, my green valentine
How did I use my green valentine?
Bodies I’ve known and visions I’ve seen
Leaves that I gathered as I gather this green
Valentine, valentine, valentine, valentine
Thus did I use my green valentine?
Madhouse and jails have where I shine
In the apartment where I pine
Oh, desolate room, my green valentine
Where is our heart with you that outline?
Oh souls and night and dollars and wine
Old love and remembrance I resign
All cities, all jazz
all echoes of time
But what shall I do with my green valentine?
Much have I seen and much I am blind
But none of them than I has a leaf of this kind
Where shall I send you to what knowing mind
My green valentine, my green valentine?
Do yesterday’s love tomorrow more fine
All tonight’s sadness in your design
What does it mean my green valentine?
Regret, oh regret, my green valentine