Lyrics: Tim Hardin
Music: Tim Hardin
Sung by the New Riders of the Purple Sage in their early days in 1969.
Lady came from Baltimore
All she wore was lace
She didn't know that I was poor
She never saw my face
Chorus
I was there to steal her money
Take her rings and run
But I fell in love with the lady
Came away with none
The lady's name was Susan Moore
Her daddy read the law
She didn't know that I was poor
And lived outside the law
[chorus]
Her daddy said, I was a thief
And didn't marry her for love
I was Susan's true belief
I married her for love
[chorus]
The house she lived in had a wall
To keep the robbers out
She'd never stop to think at all
That's what I might be about
[chorus]
I fell in love with the lady
Came away with none