When You Shook Your Long Hair Down - Tom Paxton

When you shook your long hair down

When you sat beside me

All my terrors came to town

And they began to ride me

I was left without a word

I lost my situation

Oh when you shook your long hair down

You shook my whole foundation

When you shook your long hair down

My defences crumbled

Feeling I’d begun to drown

All my words got jumbled

Not a word would come to mind

I felt a child of seven, oh

When you shook your long hair down

I saw one hope of heaven

I was left without a chance

No hope of a returning

Oh in your eyes I saw a glance

Of all my bridges burning

You know you were hardly fair

You’d already won me

With my heart already there

You had to go and stun me

Took the ribbon in your hand

Pulled it till it parted

When you shook your long hair down

You know what you started

I was left without a chance

No hope of a returning

Oh in your eyes I saw a glance

Of all my bridges burning

Yes when you shook your long hair down

When you sat beside me

All my terrors came to town

And they began to ride me

I was left without a word

I lost my situation — oh

When you shook your long hair down

You shook my whole foundation

When you shook your long hair down

You shook my whole foundation