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I Have Loved Just One Fine Maiden

from Heartache Serenade (2010) by Dan Frechette

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I Have Loved Just One Fine Maiden

I have loved just one fine maiden
her heart was true and fair
and in my days of swagger I hadn’t the heart to care
no aches of the aging had any hold on me
and I loved each and every maiden
with the abandon of a spree

Many fine young maidens came from far and near
only one would truly love me and have no heart of fear
she played the piano pretty in the parlours round the square
and every man would stutter when her beauty took their air

I have loved just one fine maiden
her heart was true and fair
and in my days of swagger
I had not the heart to care

And she fell so deep in love with me
and deep inside I cried
I knew that I was troubled lost but she didn’t realize
She’d be given to temptations and scorned around the town
by the ones who heard her breaking heart
the day our life was down

She trusted me so blindly my maiden true and fair
and all the other maidens never raised a care
and it seemed that youth had left me
when one day I was untrue
and suddenly the dreams of her and I could not come through

I held her in abandon this new maiden pretty and fair
then a loud cry went in the room when I saw the gentry there
they climbed up to the rooftops and in anguish they declared
I was untrue and a misfit scorned by those true and fair

Soon my maiden was escaping to the mountainside so high
I chased her to the edges when she fell through a mile of sky
I helped my only maiden who was true and so fair
and I cursed my life of decadence and left behind my lair

Since those days now have left me I seldom go to town
the parlours are all empty the gentry just stand their ground
no thief of hearts may wander near this prison cell and I
I rest my case each day and sing this lonesome lullaby

I have loved just one fine maiden
her heart was true and fair
and in my days of swagger I hadn’t the heart to care
no aches of the aging had any hold on me
and I loved each and every maiden
with the abandon of a spree

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from Heartache Serenade (2010), released December 31, 2010

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