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Well, I loved a girlShe lived out in Pecos, and pretty as she could beAnd I worked the rigs on out in OdessaTo give her whatever she needsBut that girl, she run with an oil company bum'Cause the diamond was not on her handAnd he left her soon 'neath the big loving moonTo go out and X-ray the landNow I sit in my car at the New Rainbow Bar downtownAnd the frost on the windshield shines toward the skyLike a thousand tiny diamonds in the lights of loving countyWell, l walked in that bar and I drank myself crazyThinking about her and that manWhen in walked a woman, looking richer than sinAnd ten years worth of work on her handWell, I followed her home and when she was aloneWell, I put my gun to her headAnd I don't recall what happened next at allBut now that rich woman, she is deadNow I drive down the highwayTen miles from my sweet baby's armsLetras de cancionesAnd the moon is so bright it don't look like nightAnd the diamond how it sparkles in the lights of loving countyBut she opened that door and I knelt on the floorAnd I put that ring in her handThen she said, "I do" and she'd leave with me soonTo the rigs out in South AlabamaWell, I told her to hide that ring there insideAnd wait 'til the timing was goodAnd I drove back home and I was alone'Cause I thought that she understoodThe next night an old friend just called me to wish us both wellHe said, he'd seen her downtown, sashaying aroundAnd her diamond how it sparkled in the lights of loving countyWell that sheriff, he found me out wanderingAll around El Paso the very next dayYou see, I'd lost my mind on that broken white lineBefore I even reached BalmorheaWell, now she's in Fort Worth and she's just giving birthTo the son of that oil company manAnd they buried that poor old sheriff's dead wifeWith the ring that I stole on her handAnd sometimes they let me look up at that East Texas skyAnd the rain on the pines, oh Lord, how it shinesLike my darling's little diamond in the lights of loving county From Letras Mania