Love And Theft - Town Drunk lyrics

She used to come over to my house
She only lived a few miles away
I never knew why, but my mama
Said if she wanted to, she could stay
A pretty little girl who fought like a boy
But she wanted to hold my hand
In a little blue dress that
She always wore, yeah
I might have been her only friend

I remember that summer like yesterday
She's to hang around all the time
Down by the creek we would always play
And tell secrets by the porch light
Shy as a bird and timid as a
Flower I wondered where she grew up
I never really thought that much about it but
Everybody said her daddy was the town drunk

Broken like a bottle
Running from the only home she ever had
Tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah, he thought she was nothing
Growing like a weed on the
Wrong side of the tracks
How could anyone not love a girl like that?

One afternoon in the middle of town
I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench
So I walked up and introduced myself and
Said his daughter was my best friend
He looked at me like he didn't care and
He asked me for a couple of bucks
Right then I decided I'd
Look after that pretty
Little girl whose daddy was the town drunk

Broken like a bottle
Running from the only home she ever had
Tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah, he thought she was nothing
Growing like a weed on the
Wrong side of the tracks
How could anyone not love a girl like that?
A girl like that

Broken like a bottle
Running from the only home she ever had
Tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah, he thought she was nothing
Growing like a weed on the
Wrong side of the tracks
How could anyone not love a girl like that?
A girl like that

Several years later
I read in the paper that
Her daddy had passed away
I was holding her hand, she had
The baby in the other
There was really nothing I could say
She looked at me and I gave her a kiss
All that mattered was the three of us
Nobody thought it'd all work
Out for that pretty
Little girl whose daddy was the town drunk