She was from North Louisiana in the town of Mer Rouge. I fell in love in a week or two,. It didn't take long to love a girl like that. We were barely ten in the cotton fields.
Well I used to pray to Jesus but I done backslid. Carrying the burdens of a preacher's kid. Drinking at the pulpit and healing them lame. Daddy was a-riding on the old death train.
I grew up in a town with one red light. How that train would rattle me in the middle of the night. But I slept like a baby in that bed. 'Cause mama kept me warm and she kept me fed.