Sixteen summers, fifteen falls letra

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

Townes Van Zandt - Letras

• (Quicksilver Daydreams Of) Maria
• A Song For
• Ain't leavin' Your Love
• All Your Young Servants
• Announcement
• At My Window
• Be Here To Love Me
• Billy, Boney and Ma
• Blaze's blues
• Blue Ridge Mountains
• Blue Wind Blew
• Brand New Companion
• Brother Flower
• Buckskin Stallion Blues
• BW Railroad Blues
• Catfish song
• Colorado Girl
• Columbine
• Come Tomorrow
• Cowboy junkies lament
• Dead flowers (Jagger/Richards)
• Delta Momma Blues
• Dollar bill blues
• Don't let the sunshine fool ya' (Guy Clark)
• Don't you take it too bad
• Fare thee well, Miss Carousel
• FFV
• Flyin' Shoes
• For The Sake Of The Song
• Fraternity blues
• Fraulein
• Goin' down to Memphis
• Gone too long
• Gone, gone blues
• Greensboro woman
• Heavenly Houseboat Blues
• Hey Willie boy
• High, Low and In between
• Highway kind
• Honky tonkin'
• I'll Be Here in the Morning
• If I Needed You
• If I was Washington
• Kathleen
• Katie Belle blue
• Like a summer thursday
• Loretta
• Lover's lullaby
• Lungs
• Many a fine a lady
• Marie
• Mr Gold and Mr Mud
• My proud mountains
• Niles river blues
• Nine pound hammer
• No Deal
• No Lonesome Tune
• No place to fall
• None But The Rain
• Nothin
• Only him or me
• Our Mother The Mountain
• Pancho And Lefty
• Pueblo waltz
• Rake
• Rex's blues
• Sad Cinderella
• Sanitaruim Blues
• Second lovers song
• She Came And She Touched Me
• Shrimp song
• Silver Ships Of Andilar
• Sixteen summers, fifteen falls
• Snake Mountain Blues
• Snake Song
• Snow don't fall
• Snowin on Raton
• Squash
• St John The Gambler
• Standin'
• Still looking for you
• Talkin' karate blues
• Talking thunderbird blues
• Tecumseh Valley
• The Hole
• The silver ships of Andilar
• The spider song
• To Live is to Fly
• Tower Song
• Turnstyled, Junkpiled
• Two girls
• Two hands
• Upon my soul
• Velvet voices
• Waitin' For The Day
• Waiting Around To Die
• When He offers his hand
• When she don't need me
• When Your Dream Lovers Die
• Where I Lead Me
• White freight liner blues
• Why she's acting this way
• You are not needed now