Bandit and a Heartbreaker

recorded March 1989

available on The Linda Ronstadt Box Set

Lyrics as performed by Linda Ronstadt


Bandit and a Heartbreaker

written by Judee Sill
© EMI Blackwood Music (BMI)

Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flying low for me

One time I trusted a stranger
Cause I heard his sweet song
And it was gently enticing me
Though there was something wrong
And when I turned
He was gone
Blinding me, his song remained
Reminding me
He's a bandit and a heartbreaker
A bandit and a heartbreaker
Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flying low for me

He wages war with the devil
A pistol by his side
And though he chases him out windows
And won't give him a place to hide
He keeps his door open wide
Blinding him, he lights a lamp
Inviting him
He's a bandit and a heartbreaker
A bandit and a heartbreaker
Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flying low for me

One time I trusted a stranger
Cause I heard his sweet song
And it was gently enticing me
Though there was something wrong
And when I turned
He was gone
Blinding me, his song remained
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Reminding me
He's a bandit and a heartbreaker
A bandit and a heartbreaker
A bandit and a heartbreaker
Sweet silver angels over the sea
Please come down flying low for me