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