Loving Country

I loved a girl
She lived out in Pecos
And she was pretty as she could be, sing it loud
And I worked them oil rigs on out in Odessa
Just to give her whatever she need

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, yeah

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 country, yeah

Well, l was in that bar and I drank myself crazy
"Cause I was thinking about her and that man
When in walked a woman, looking richer than sin
She have 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
I don't recall you know, ahem, 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 country

When she opened that door, and I knelt on the floor
And I put that ring in her hand
And she said, "I do" and she'd leave with me soon
To them oil rigs out, out in South Alabama

Well, I told her to hide that ring there inside
Wait 'til the timing was good
I drove on home, and you know, and I was all alone
'Cause I thought that she understood, but she know she did

'Cause 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 country, yeah

Fort Worth, Texas, say hello to my little friend

That sheriff, he found me out wandering all around
El Paso the very next day

You see, I'd lost my mind on them broken white line
Before I even reached Balmorhea
But 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, poor old dead wife

With the ring that I stole on her hand
You know that, 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 country