Song of Sorrow

I don't remember where I met her,
I just remember her face
She was the prettiest girl I've ever seen
She had the prettiest taste

She wa born south down in deep Kentucky
but she came up north,
and she used to sing these songs
that brought the angels forth

Her father was in New Orleans
he was doing hard time
The judge gave him a thousand years
and one of his eyes was blind,

She said to me he murdered someone,
did it with a knife
Stuck a blade through some rich mans throat
took a rich mans life,

When i asked her why it happened
all that she said
was that the bastard had tried to rape her
and so her father had killde him dead

but the father he had no money
so the judge went and laid a curse
and then everything in her life
went from bad to worse

but she was the prettiest woman
that i think ive ever seen
she used to sing these golden songs
make me feel like i was in a dream

and when she disappeared
i just sat down and cried
cause i knew that day when she was gone
that a part of me die