Loving County

Well, I loved a girl, she lived down in Pecos She was pretty as she could be And I worked them oil rigs, on out in Odessa (in Odessa) Just to give her whatever she needs But that girl she run with an old company bum 'Cause a diamond was not on her hand But 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 The frost on the windshield shines toward the sky Like a thousand tiny (diamonds in the lights of Loving County, uh-uh) When I walked in that bar and I drank myself crazy As I was thinking about her and that man When in walked a woman, she is lookin' richer than sin And she had ten years worth of work on her hand Well, I followed her home and when she was alone I put my gun to her head I don't' recall what happened next at all But now that rich woman she's dead Now I drive down the highway Ten miles from my sweet baby's arms The moon is so bright, it don't look like night And the diamond, how it sparkles in the lights of Loving County When she opened that door and I knelt on the floor Then I put that ring in her hand and she said, "I do" And she'd leave with me soon to them old oil rigs Out in South Alabama Well, I told her to hide that ring there inside And wait 'til the timing was good Then I drove on home and I was alone because As I thought that, she understood But you know what she did Because the next night an old friend Just called me to wish us both well He said he'd seen her downtown, sashayin' around And her diamond, how it sparkled (in the lights of Loving County) That was Mr Kevin Carroll Well that sheriff he found Me out wanderin' all around El Paso the very next day See, I'd lost my mind on that broken white line Before I even reached Balmorhea (uh-uh) 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's poor old dead wife With the ring that I stole on her hand You know, sometimes they let me look up at that East Texas sky And the rain on the pines, oh Lord How it shines Like my darlin' little diamond in the lights of Loving County Thank you