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Loving County (recorded live at Gruene Hall)
Charlie Robison
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Well, I loved a girl
She lived out in Pecos
She is pretty as she could be
And I worked them oil rigs on out in Odessa
Just to give her whatever she needs
But that girl, she ran with an oil company bum
'Cause a diamond was not on 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 car at the New Rainbow bar downtown
The frost on the windshield shines toward the sky
Like a thousand tiny diamonds in the lights of Loving County
Well, l walked in that bar and I drank myself crazy
Thinking about her and that man
When in walked a woman, she's looking 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
And 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 County
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Well, 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 them old oil rigs down in South Alabam'
Well, I told her to hide that ring there inside
And wait 'til the timing was good
And I drove on home and I was alone
'Cause I thought that she understood
You know 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
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Let's go, Ken
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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
'Fore I even reached Balmoral
Well, 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 old dead wife
With the ring that I stole on her hand
You know 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
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Thank you all
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