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There's a Girl I Know
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.
Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals
A shadowy woman brings news of a contract killing, drawing the narrator into an outlaw world where loyalty is mercenary and refuge scarce. His account moves from professional detachment toward thoughts of consequence and death. By the final verse, the woman in black has become the ominous figure approaching him as well.
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Recorded versions
2 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.
Female Vocal · 2:34
There's a Girl I Know — Female Vocal — Swamp-Groove Blues-Rock
Swamp-Groove Blues-Rock
Lyrics
There's a Girl I Know
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr
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THERE'S A GIRL I KNOW There's A Girl I Know And she's been lookin’ out for you She moves like a Shadow Watchin’ you where you go She came in to tell me Don't let anybody know I got him on a piece of paper Says he's gotta go I got no idea what he's done And it don't even matter They told me to bring my gun Get it done sooner than later I prefer to take my time, Like darkness on the water And when it's time, I draw the line Like leading lambs into the slaughter I raise my glass and drink a toast To all that went before me That they might meet the Lord of Hosts Before I see Eternity And if by chance a day shall pass When I come this way again And now, listen, my Noble Friend All our Lives on you depend There is no kind of Sanctuary The Ties that Bind are Mercenary And when, in kind, we can repay The Sins of our Fathers from Yesterday All of the Others we Lost on the Way If you live your Life as an Outlaw You can never come in from the Cold You'll live by the Gun, and you'll Die on the Run And you’ll be Dead before you get Old Out of the Darkness came One, shining Ray The Thunder and Lightning and Rain blew away The Sun coming out at the End of the Day With only a moment to kneel down and pray There's A Girl I Know She wears a Black Lace Veil A long, Black Dress Can you hear the 4 Winds wail? As the Long Road ends She is Beckoning to you There's A Girl I Know And she's coming after you *********
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