Well she made me sit down with the doctor To try to make sense of my mind She never knew all the sense that the doctor would find So I cried as I finally left her And married a Dutch woman's child Try as I might couldn't live with the ways of the wild Got myself an Eastern woman Fires burning deep inside Got myself an Eastern woman's eye So I read the Armenian's letter Said she came close to the end I headed south never knowing what was to begin And I know that I never can leave her She found her way to my soul Handed my heart to that girl of the night at the door Got myself an Eastern woman Fires burning deep inside Got myself an Eastern woman's eye