Radka Toneff - Lonely Woman (live, 1982)

Composed by Ornette Coleman, lyrics by Margo Guryan.
Live on Scottish TV, 1982 (re-broadcast on NRK). With Jon Balke, piano, Arild Andersen, bass, and Alex Riel, drums. Another live version of this song is released on "Live in Hamburg" (Odin Records, Norway, 1993), recorded in 1981.

Radka Toneff was born in 1952 in Oslo, Norway, of Bulgarian father (folk singer, pilot and radio technician) and Norwegian mother. She is Norway's greatest jazz singer to this day, and her album "Fairytales" (1982) is Norway's best selling jazz record. She died in 1982.
https://tv.nrk.no/program/MKMF1500031...

Lyrics:
Lonely in the night she wanders
Who can she tell of her heartache
They that knew her didn't care
Wouldn't share heartache
She is a lonely woman
No one to cry to at all

Once she wore a smile of gladness
Now on her smile there are teardrops
They that knew her didn't care
Wouldn't wear teardrops
She is a lonely woman
To wander alone through the darkness

Once she loved a man
Don't bother to imagine how she loved him
You'd never guess at all
She never told the secret of her sorrow
And yet there was someone who knew

He had eyes that saw her sorrow
He heard the sound of her sadness
When he called her no one came
But the same sadness
He calls the lonely woman
But never again will she hear him