Tom T. Hall - The Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time lyrics

The girl from West Virginia read the
Same book all the time
At first I thought perhaps she
Was unsettled in her mind
She'd read it front to back and
Then she'd read it over again
She knew that I knew she knew
What happened in the end
She would go to work each morning
That's the book that she would take
She'd read it on her lunch hour and
She'd read it on her break
Her calm expression never changed from
Page to page to page
She knew that story never changed from
Day to day to day some people said it was a
Book about a love affair
That grew and grew throughout the years
And never knew a care
A book wherein the people love and
Dreams all turned out right
They say she even took the book
To bed with her at night
I recall the tattered pages and
The cover faded out
Of a walkin' wind blown woman
By some old majestic house
One day I even asked her why
She did that and she said
Mr Hall this is the best
Book I have ever read
Some people say it was a
Book about a great romance
She picked it up the night she
Didn't make the high school dance
Ain't it strange what life can
Sometimes do to people's mind
Like the girl from West Virginia reads
The same book all the time