Charlie Robison - Loving County lyrics
[Charlie Robison - Loving County lyrics]
Well, I loved a girl she lived out in Pecos
And pretty as she could be
And I worked the rigs on out in Odessa
To give her whatever she needs
But that girl
She run with an oil company bum
'Cause the diamond was not on her hand
And he left her soon 'neath
The big loving moon
To go out and X ray the land
Now I sit in my car at
The New Rainbow Bar downtown
And the frost on the windshield
Shines toward the sky
Like a thousand tiny diamonds in
The lights of Loving County
Well, I walked in that bar
And I drank myself crazy
Thinking about her and that man
When in walked a woman
Looking richer than sin
And ten years worth of work on her hand
Well, I followed her home and
When she was alone
Well, I put my gun to her head
And I don't recall what happened next at all
But now that rich woman, she is dead
Now I drive down the highway
Ten miles from my sweet baby's arms
And the moon is so bright
It don't look like night
And the diamond how it sparkles in
The lights of Loving County
But she opened that door and
I knelt on the floor
And I put that ring in her hand
Then she said
"I do" and she'd leave with me soon
To the rigs out in South Alabam'
Well, I told her to hide
That ring there inside
And wait 'til the timing was good
And I drove back home and I was alone
'Cause I thought that she understood
The next night an old friend just called
Me to wish us both well
He said, he'd seen her downtown
Sashaying around and her diamond
How it sparkled in the
Lights of Loving County
Well, that sheriff, he found me out wandering
All around El Paso the very next day
You see
I'd lost my mind on that broken white line
Before I even reached Balmorhea
Well, now she's in Fort Worth
And she's just giving birth
To the son of that oil company man
And they buried that poor
Old sheriff's dead wife
With the ring that I stole on her hand
And sometimes they let me look up
At that East Texas sky
And the rain on the pines, oh Lord
How it shines
Like my darling's little diamond in
The lights of Loving County
And pretty as she could be
And I worked the rigs on out in Odessa
To give her whatever she needs
But that girl
She run with an oil company bum
'Cause the diamond was not on her hand
And he left her soon 'neath
The big loving moon
To go out and X ray the land
Now I sit in my car at
The New Rainbow Bar downtown
And the frost on the windshield
Shines toward the sky
Like a thousand tiny diamonds in
The lights of Loving County
Well, I walked in that bar
And I drank myself crazy
Thinking about her and that man
When in walked a woman
Looking richer than sin
And ten years worth of work on her hand
Well, I followed her home and
When she was alone
Well, I put my gun to her head
And I don't recall what happened next at all
But now that rich woman, she is dead
Now I drive down the highway
Ten miles from my sweet baby's arms
And the moon is so bright
It don't look like night
And the diamond how it sparkles in
The lights of Loving County
But she opened that door and
I knelt on the floor
And I put that ring in her hand
Then she said
"I do" and she'd leave with me soon
To the rigs out in South Alabam'
Well, I told her to hide
That ring there inside
And wait 'til the timing was good
And I drove back home and I was alone
'Cause I thought that she understood
The next night an old friend just called
Me to wish us both well
He said, he'd seen her downtown
Sashaying around and her diamond
How it sparkled in the
Lights of Loving County
Well, that sheriff, he found me out wandering
All around El Paso the very next day
You see
I'd lost my mind on that broken white line
Before I even reached Balmorhea
Well, now she's in Fort Worth
And she's just giving birth
To the son of that oil company man
And they buried that poor
Old sheriff's dead wife
With the ring that I stole on her hand
And sometimes they let me look up
At that East Texas sky
And the rain on the pines, oh Lord
How it shines
Like my darling's little diamond in
The lights of Loving County