Sixteen Summers, Fifteen Falls lyrics

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

• Artist:Townes Van Zandt
• Album:For the Sake of the Song (1968)