Forbidden Lyrics

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