Little Blossom

Little Blossom choked when her Daddy croaked
Her sad face toked in her long pipe smoke
She drank herself to sleep most every night
She had colts to ride, a few steers to buy
Deer meat, fish and spuds to fry
But inside she cried, somehow my life ain't right
She knew she had to take a big ride
Across the desert and the valley wide
Past a couple little towns to a bigger one that she knew
She left her saddle and her medicine belt
With her old uncle cuz he knew how she felt
Made big sweat over her bones and away she flew

She looked at me through bleary eyes
And when she spoke much to my surprise
She told me things I would have never known
She was taking amigos back to Mexico
She quoted Bob Dylan and Geronimo
We ate lots of mushrooms, chased em down with Joe Crow
She told me she'd been stabbed three times
Been married twice and been on the wine
Smoking cigarettes don't stunt your growth
And you can bury your heart at wounded knee
Or get a skin from the university

Somehow I had the feelin' she'd done both

'You can praise the Lord and bury your dead
Or you can be your own God', she said
"I've sold myself but I have made a livin'
So buy me drinks and toast to my health
Tomorrow I'll forgive myself
I got nobody else doin' my forgivin'"
She was making me a proposition
If I would just shut up and listen
She'd pay me back on time when she got home
With a little help from the stars and moon

She said 'I won't be returnin' soon'
I told her she could call me on the phone

Now Little Blossom combs out her hair
And lives alone way out there
At night she lays her tired old body down

She rides some colts and runs some steers
And deals with all her doubts and fears
Does her best to stay away from town

Nah it don't pay to stay too long in town.