Townes Van Zandt – Many A Fine Lady (Guitar)

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Well it's many a fine lady has walked along beside me

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With their flesh made of velvet and their eyes made of rain

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Well some tried to hold me, to hurt me, to hide me

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And some turned away, not to look back again

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One stood among them, I remember most clearly

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Well her sorrows were heavy, and her laughter was slow

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Well I courted her gently, and I loved her most dearly

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And I came her majestic reflections to know

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oh her words, like a mountain, stood lonely and lofty

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With her face like a daydream and her hair like the shawl

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Worn by a mourner, as he steals away softly

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From those that would have him mourn nothing at all

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Oh, endlessly sorrow rode high on the north wind

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Slashing and slicing to take him his toll

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And endlessly creatures of darkness were cutting

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Their paths through the walls that shelter the soul

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Ah but no longer gypsy-like sadness unending

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Well her eyes - they lay hollow and her face petrified

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Well some will go laughing and others condemning

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Oh but who there among you could have told her goodbye?