Forbidden Songtext
von Bruce Guthro

Maria walked down to the riverbank
Left her clothes hangin′ in a tree
She stood naked in the cool blue water
She was waitin' 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 nothin'
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


Forbidden love, the sweetest on the vine
Forbidden love, it′s another man′s wine
A wise man, he would let her go
And a foolish man would drink her slow
And a dead man, he would never know

Now little towns talk
So it wasn't very long
Vicent 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
And a shot rang out from the darkness
And Maria went down


Maybe it was fate
I didn′t die that night
Vicent ran out from the darkness
And he held her and he cried
He dropped the gun down at her feet
And I picked it up and did the deed
I cleaned my prints off with my sleeve
And walked away

Forbidden love, the sweetest on the vine
Forbidden love, it's another man′s wine
A wise man, he would let her go
And 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 hangin' in a tree
She stood naked in the cool blue water