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I once saw a girl on my lawn She was so pretty and young She walked right up and just said "Your house is where I once lived" She asked to look around To see if she could find The part of her she left behind That she needed to move on I didn't want to let her down It was with her that I was found So I lead her into my place You should have seen her face She said her name was Sam And I let her know who I am She asked if she could bathe And I said: "Okay" An hour went by and the door opened wide And through the steam I saw her eyes She said: "You saved my life" It was with her that I was right A week maybe two disappeared She never came back around here I asked the old man living beside If he remembered Sam and he cried The beauty he described Was the girl I let inside But what he said after I'll never forget Until the day that I die The girl I met drowned in the bath In my house at 25 In 1939 It was with her that I tried