Lyrics:

Maria walked down to the river bank
Left her clothes hangin' in a tree
She stood naked in the cool blue water
She was waiting 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 nothing
But somebody to hold
So one day, he took Maria
And 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
A foolish man he'd drink her slow
A dead man he would never know

Now, little towns talk
So it wasn't very long
Vincent finally heard the word
Just to what was goin' on
Now 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 river bank once more
She told me it was over
And that I should leave town
Then a shot rang out from the darkness
And Maria went down

Maybe it was fate
I didn't die that night
Vincent ran out from the darkness
And he held her and he cried
He dropped the gun down at her feet
I picked it up and did the deed
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
A foolish man he'd drink her slow
And a dead man he would never know
Forbidden love
Forbidden love

Maria walked down to the river bank
Left her clothes hangin' in a tree
She stood naked in the cool blue water