Many A Fine A Lady Lyrics - For The Sake Of The Song - Townes Van Zandt

It's many a fine lady that's walked along beside me 

With their flesh made of velvet and their eyes made of rain 

Some tried to hold me to hurt me to hide me 

And some turned away not to look back again 

One stood among them I remember most clearly 

Her sorrows were heavy and her laughter was slow 

I courted her gently and I loved her most dearly 

And I came her majestic reflections to know 

Her words like the mountain stood lonely and lofty 

With her face like daydream and her hair like the shawl worn by a mourner As he steals away softly 

From those that would have him mourn nothing at all 

Endlessly sorrow rode high on the north wind 

Slashing and slicing to take him his toll 

And endlessly creatures of darkness were cuttin' 

Their paths through the walls that sheltered her soul