Charlie Robison: Lovin county

Well, I loved a girl she lived down in Pecos Pretty as she could be I worked the rigs on out in Odessa To give her whatever she needs But that girl she runs with an oil company bum 'Cause a diamond was not in her hand But he left her soon 'neath the big Loving moon To go out and x-ray the land Now I sit in my care 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 I walked in that bard and I drank myself crazy Thinking about her and that man When in walked a woman Lookin' richer than sin and ten years worth of work on her hand Well, I followed her home and when she was alone I put my gun to her head I don't recall what happened next at all But now that rich woman she's 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 Country She opened that door and I knelt on the floor Then I put that ring in her hand And she said I do And she'd leave with me as soon to the rigs Out in South Alabama Well, I told her to hide that ring there inside And wait till the timing was good Then I drove on home and I was alone When I thought that she understood The next night an old friend Just called me to wish us both well Said he'd seen her downtown sashayin' around And her diamond how it sparkled in the lights of Loving County Well the sheriff he found Me out wanderin' all around El Paso the very next day See I'd lost my mind on that broken white line Fore I ever reached Balmorhea Now she's in Fort Worth and she's just given birth To the son of that oil company man And they buried that sheriff's poor ol' dead wife With the ring that I stole on her hand Sometimes they let e look up at that East Texas sky And the rain on the pines oh Lord, how it shines Like my darlin's little diamond in the lights of Loving County