Was a girl with a golden tan
And she asked me if I was
I politely stepped a side and
said I did not need a ride
Well, when she turned and walked away
Had it been another day I just
With that woman riding off
So the years they came and went
And found me living in a tent
Far above a little marble stream
And it may have been the light
that shone out through the night
That the owner of that hand was that girl
If you'll tell me 'bout your trip
Well, she said,"If you think back
To the first time that we passed
I'm sure you'll picture me
It was shortly after then that
But now he he didn't refuse
And he took off of both his shoes
In the twinkling of the night
He knocked me off the side
And left me there for dead upon the sand
When much to my surprise,
But this old friend of yours
He said he knew you from the wars
And I told him that I thought
Well, he said he should have known
'Cause you like to be alone
So I asked him for a ride
Just to get here by your side
And stay here above this stream
Well, we sat quite for a while
Well it's strange but I don't care
And some nights when I'm at rest
I wonder if I'd said, "yes"
Would she have come to me
Or would I have been the one to
leave her lying in the sun
And then ended up with only
Or would the woman in my arms
If the an swer that I gave her
