(Nanci Griffith / Charley Stefl) She's a brown skin girl from El Paso City He's a sweet tempered soldier from Fort Bliss They ran off one July evening
(Nanci Griffith) Here's a photograph of you in Woody Hermann's band It was 1952, you were such a handsome man One of you at a memorial with all of Hoagy
(Nanci Griffith) Where are all the Satchel Boys Selling books outside the Metripole? Books to read in English Books of light and sorrows Of this foreign
(Ron Davies) I'll never fall in love again It's such a contradiction To lose all control and common sense And even intuition You came along, with a
(Nanci Griffith / Elizabeth Cook) (chorus) I want a simple life Like my mother One true love for my older years I don't want your wars To take my children