Townes Van Zandt – Sixteen Summers Fifteen Falls (Guitar)

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Let me tell you a story 'bout a girl I knew

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Fairest skin with eyes of blue

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I swear to the Lord that I loved her true

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It's a year now she's been gone

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Well her spirit was as bright as the soft sunshine

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Lips, the colour strawberry wine

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I wish to God, she still was mine

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The chance won't come again

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After first, we lay in love's sweet bed

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With one look at her eyes, I might have read

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All the pain that was flying through her head

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Through my guilt I could not see

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Oh I turned to her when the morning came

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Hungry thoughts racing through my brain

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But the knife in her heart screamed herself she'd slain

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And a note whispered love too soon

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Her old man screamed and her mother cried

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All I could do was to wonder why

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A girl in her youth was forced to die

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Is loving such a crime?

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She died Few in years with breasts still small

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Seeing sixteen summers and fifteen falls

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Me and my blindness never realized all

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The fear she kept inside

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Let me tell you a story 'bout a girl I knew

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Fairest skin with eyes of blue

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I swear to the Lord that I loved her true