Expert: Mel Priddle - 5/19/2008

Question
I heard this song on the radio and it is driving me crazy who sings it and it goes "Rocky, I've never been in love before, I don't know if I can do it." The song is about a woman not sure about love, they get married have a baby and the wonman dies.

Answer
Hello Melanie.

That's "Rocky" by Austin Roberts from 1975.


Alone until my eighteenth year, we met four springs ago
Sshe was shy and had a fear of things she did not know
But we got it on together in such a super way
Held each other close at night and traded dreams each day, and
She said, "Rocky I've never been in love before, don't know if I can do it,
But if you let me lean on you, take my hand I might get through it"
Oh, and I said, " Baby oh sweet baby it's love will set us free
And God knows if the world should end your love is safe with me

We found an old grey house and you would not believe the way
We worked at night to fix it up, took classes in the day
Paintin' walls and sippin wine, sleepin' on the floor
With so much love for just two, soon we found there'd be one more
She said, "Rocky I've never had a baby before, don't know if I can do it
But if you let me lean on you, take my hand I might get through it"
Oh, and I said, "Baby, oh, sweet baby, it's love will set us free
And God knows, if the world should end, your love is safe with me

We had lots of problems, yeah, but we had lots of fun
Like the crazy party when our baby girl turned one
I was proud and satisfied, life had so much to give
'Til the day they told me that she didn't have long to live
She said, "Rocky I've never had to die before, don't know if I can do it..."

Now it's back to two again, the little girl and I
Who looks so much like her sweet mother, sometimes it makes me cry
I sleep alone at nights again, I walk alone each day
And sometimes when I'm about to give in, I hear her sweet voice say to me
"Rocky, you know you've been alone before, you know that you can do it
But if you'd like to lean on me, ake my hand, I'll help you through it"
I said, "Baby, oh, sweet baby, it's love that sets us free
And I told you when the world would end, your love was safe with me"

She said, "Rocky, you know you've been alone before, you know that you can do it
But if you'd like to lean on me........


Glad to be of help. Cheers.........Mel.