Tequila Mockingbird

(Pam Tillis/Mel Tillis, Jr.)
 It's a slow, smoky scene at the county line cantina
 Where strangers stop to hear her sing a song
 She's a legend 'round these parts
 For stealing all the hearts of cowboys on their way to San Antone
 She used to be a desert rose with ballerina toes
 But that wasn't in the cards she chose to play
 The pages of her life are wrinkled, but her Spanish eyes still twinkle
 Every time she steps out on the stage
 Tequila Mockingbird, flying underneath the neon moon
 Tequila Mockingbird, dreaming of a love that ended too soon
 She sings the saddest song you ever heard
 So bittersweet
 Tequila Mockingbird, Tequila Mockingbird
 Well now once she had a man, and they called him Diamond Dan
 He was wild and reckless as a mustang stud
 'Til one night Tequila found him with the gamblers gathered 'round him
 Lyin' in a pool of cheater's blood
 Tequila Mockingbird, flying underneath the neon moon
 Tequila Mockingbird, dreaming of a love that ended too soon
 She sings the saddest song you ever heard
 So bittersweet
 Tequila Mockingbird, Tequila Mockingbird
 She sings ooh hoo, woo hoo hoo
 It wasn't God who made those blue neon angels
 ooh woo hoo hooh
 I know he's waiting on the other side for me
 Tequila Mockingbird, flying underneath the neon moon
 Tequila Mockingbird, dreaming of a love that ended too soon
 She sings the saddest song you ever heard
 So bittersweet
 Tequila Mockingbird, Tequila Mockingbird
 She sings ooh hoo, woo hoo hoo
 She sings ooh hoo, woo hoo hoo ooh