Charlie Robison - Loving CountyLyrics

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