A Young Girl - Noel Harrison

She left her neighborhood in which

Everyone was filthy rich

She left her parents' home and strayed

With a vagabond who made

Vows of love she’d never heard

And she believed his every word

She left no forwarding address

Just took her youth and happiness

As with the boy she vanished in

The secret sweetness of their sin

A young girl

A young girl of sixteen

Child of springtime, still green

Lying here by the road

He told her love demanded space

So they roamed from place to place

Although she realized she’d sin

She threw caution to the wind

As she followed him around

While he slowly dragged her down

So overpowering was her love

That it had made a captive of

The young girl’s heart and soul and mind

In other words love drove her blind

A young girl

A young girl of sixteen

Child of springtime, still green

Lying here by the road

Too much emotion for a girl

She let her heart become her world

But was that God has never wrought

For asunder we are taught

Had she been wiser she’d have known

She couldn’t feed him love alone

She should have known the day would come

When he would quit her just for crumbs

He wanted fresh new meat to carve

Left her heart and mind to starve

A young girl

A young girl of sixteen

Child of springtime, still green

Lying here by the road

Dead