Girl

She lived in sinful happiness

And she died in pain

She danced in sunshine

And laughed in rain

 

She went one summer morning

Where the flowers spread the plain

She told everybody

She'd be coming back again

 

Folks built her a coffin

And they hid her deep in the earth

Seems like she said,

My body brings new birth

 

She went one summer morning

Where the flowers spread the plain

She told everybody

She'd be coming back again

 

For sure there grew flowers

And tall young trees

Sturdy tweeds and grasses

To sway in the breeze

 

And sure she lived in growing things with no pain

That dance in sunshine and laugh in rain.