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