Brownsville Girl

Well, there was this movie I seen one time
 About a man riding 'cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck
 He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself
 The townspeople wanted to crush that
 Kid down and string him up by the neck
 Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
 As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath
 Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square
 I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death
 Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in
 And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain
 You know I can't believe we've
 Lived so long and are still so far apart
 The memory of you keeps callin' after me like a rollin' train
 I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert
 In your busted down Ford and your platform heels
 I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet
 Ah, but you were right, it was perfect as I got in behind the wheel
 Well, we drove that car all night into San Anton'
 And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft
 Way down in Mexico you went out to
 Find a doctor and you never came back
 I would have gone on after you but I
 Didn't feel like letting my head get blown off
 Well, we're drivin' this car and
 The sun is comin' up over the Rockies
 Now I know she ain't you but she's here
 And she's got that dark rhythm in her soul
 But I'm too over the edge and I ain't in
 The mood anymore to remember the times when
 I was your only man
 And she don't want to remind me
 She knows this car would go out of control
 Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
 Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
 Moon above
 Brownsville girl
 Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
 Love
 Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo
 We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live
 He owned a wreckin' lot outside of
 Town about a mile
 Ruby was in the backyard hanging
 Clothes, she had her red hair tied back
 She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust
 She says, "Henry ain't here but you can
 Come on in, he'll be back in a little while."
 Then she told us how times were tough
 And about how she was thinkin' of bummin' a
 Ride back to from where she started
 But she changes subject every time money came up
 She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead."
 But you can tell she was so broken-hearted
 She said, "Even the swap meets
 Around here are getting pretty corrupt."
 "How far are y'all going?" Ruby asked us with a sigh
 "We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn
 'Til the sun peels the paint and the seat
 Covers fade and the water moccasin dies."
 Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn."
 Something about that movie though
 Well I just can't get it out of my head
 But I can't remember why I was in it
 Or what part I was supposed to play
 All I remember about it was Gregory Peck and the way people moved
 And a lot of them seemed to be lookin' my way
 Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
 Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
 Moon above
 Brownsville girl
 If you show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
 Love
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 Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour
 I was crossin' the street when shots rang out
 
 I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran
 "We got him cornered in the churchyard," I heard somebody shout
 Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus
 Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A
 Man with no alibi."
 You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you
 Then when I saw you break down in
 Front of the judge and cry real tears
 It was the best acting I saw anybody do
 Now I've always been the kind of person
 That doesn't like to trespass but sometimes
 You just find yourself over the line
 Oh if there's an original thought out there, I could use it right now
 You know, I feel pretty good
 But that ain't sayin' much. I could feel a whole lot
 Better
 If you were just here by my side to show me how
 Well, I'm standin' in line in the
 Rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck
 Yeah, but you know it's not the one that I had in mind
 He's got a new one out now, I don't even know what it's about
 But I'll see him in anything so I'll stand in line
 Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
 Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
 Moon above
 Brownsville girl
 Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
 Love
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 You know, it's funny how things never
 Turn out the way you had 'em planned
 The only thing we knew for sure about
 Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry
 Porter
 And you know there was somethin' about
 You baby that I liked that was always too
 Good for this world
 Just like you always said there was
 Something about me you liked that I left behind
 In the French Quarter
 Strange how people who suffer together
 Have stronger connections than people who
 Are most content
 I don't have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I'm gone
 You always said people don't do what they
 Believe in, they just do what's most convenient
 Then they repent
 And I always said, "Hang on to me
 Baby, and let's hope that the roof stays on."
 There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice
 I don't remember who I was or where I was bound
 All I remember about it was it starred
 Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot
 In the back
 Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down
 Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
 Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
 Moon above
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 Brownsville girl
 Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
 Love