Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls

By townes van zandt



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

Fairest skin with eyes of blue

I swear to the lord that i loved her true

It's a year now she's been gone





Her spirit was as bright as the soft sunshine

Lips the color of strawberry wine

I wish to god she still was mine

The chance won't come again





After first we lay in love's sweet bed

With one look at her eyes i might have read

All the pain that was flying through her head

Through my guilt i could not see





I turned to her when the morning came

Hungry thoughts racing through my brain

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

And a note whispered love too soon





Her old man screamed and her mother cried

All i could do was to wonder why

A girl in her youth was forced to die

Is loving such a crime?





She died [few in the years] with breasts still small

Seeing sixteens summers and fifteen falls

Me and my blindness never realized all

The fear she kept inside





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

Fairest skin with eyes of blue

I swear to the lord that i loved her true






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