Forbidden

Maria walked down to the riverbank
Left her clothes hanging in a tree
She stood naked in the cool blue water
She was waiting there for me
I came off the back shift
And I met her on the bank
We laid down in the tall green grass
In the warm September rain
Now Vincent drives a mustang
And he wears a lot of gold
And he doesn’t want for nothing
But somebody to hold
So one day he took Maria
And he played a rich man’s part
And he won a poor girl with his money
But he could never win her heart
Chorus:
Forbidden love, the sweetest on the vine
Forbidden love is another man’s wine
A wise man he would let her go
A foolish man would drink her slow
And a dead man he would never know
Little towns talk
So it wasn’t very long
Vincent finally heard the word
Just what was going on
Now a man don’t think with reason
When his body’s filled with rage
So he went and bought himself a gun
And a bullet with my name
I came off the back shift
Like a thousand times before
And I met my sweet Maria
On the riverbank once more
She told me it was over
And that I should leave town
A shot rang out from the darkness
And Maria went down
Maybe it was fate
I didn’t die that night
Vincent ran out from the darkness
He held her and cried
He dropped the gun down at her feet
I picked it up and did the deed
Cleaned my prints off with my sleeve
And walked away
Chorus:
Forbidden love, the sweetest on the vine
Forbidden love is another man’s wine
A wise man he would let her go
A foolish man would drink her slow
And a dead man he would never know
Forbidden love
Forbidden love
Maria walked down to the riverbank
Left her clothes hanging in a tree
She stood naked in the cool blue water