[00:07.77]By townes van zandt
[00:08.55]It's many a fine lady that's walked along beside me
[00:17.29]With their flesh made of velvet and their eyes made of rain
[00:27.11]Some tried to hold me to hurt me to hide me
[00:36.62]And some turned away not to look back again
[00:47.98]One stood among them I remember most clearly
[00:57.17]Her sorrows were heavy and her laughter was slow
[01:06.70]I courted her gently and I loved her most dearly
[01:16.17]And I came her majestic reflections to know
[01:28.87]Her words like the mountain stood lonely and lofty
[01:37.14]With her face like daydream and her hair like the shore
[01:47.05]Worn by a mourner as he steals away softly
[01:56.22]From those that would have him mourn nothing at all
[02:08.07]Endlessly sorrow rode high on the north wind
[02:17.31]Slashing and slicing to take him his toll
[02:26.66]And endlessly creatures of darkness were cuttin'
[02:36.09]Their paths through the walls that shelter the soul
[02:56.92]But no longer gypsy lie sadness unending
[03:06.81]Her eyes they lay hollow and her face petrified
[03:16.40]The sun will go laughin' and others condemn him
[03:26.04]But who there among you could have told her goodbye