Loving County Lyrics - Singles - Charlie Robison

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, l 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 Alabama 

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