She left her neighborhood in which Everyone was filthy rich She left her parents' home And strayed with a vagabond Who made vows of love she never heard And she believed his every word She left no forwarding address She just took her youth and happiness And with the boy she vanished in The secret sweetness of their sin A young girl A young girl of sixteen Child of springtime still green Laying there by the road He told her love-demanded space So they roam place to place Although she realized she sinned She threw caution to the wind As she followed him around While he slowly dragged her down So overpowering was the love that he had made It captured all the young girl's hearts and soul and mind In another words, love drove her blind A young girl A young girl of sixteen Child of springtime still green Laying there by the road Too much emotion for a girl She let her heart become her world A world that God has never wrought That brought us under, we are taught Had she'd been wiser and she had known She could of fed him love alone She should've know the day would come When he would quit her just for fun He needed fresh young meat to carve And left her heart and mind to starve A young girl A young girl of sixteen Child of springtime still green Laying there by the road