Richard Thompson - I Found A Stray lyrics

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I found a stray

At my back door

She was hungry, a shivering soul

Her dress was rags, her shoes were old

I found a stray,

At my back door

I washed her dirty, from off her face

I took her clean into my bed

But I could never wash away

The voice’s calm, I haven’t

Sometimes a smile, let on her lips

That give me joy, where there was none

Until the shadow across the face

Like the moon, across the sun

What ever life, she had to live

It was a life, of moving on

I walk up, one day to find

My little stray, had come and gone

And she be out there, on the road

If she’s not picked up

By the law

Or she’ll be lying, near, dying...

I found a stray

At my back door

She was hungry, a shivering soul

Her dress was rags, her shoes were old

I found a stray,

At my back door.