Capo 1st fret

Intro:  G F C Bd G

G                    F                C
Well I loved a Girl, She lived out in Pecos
                  Bd        G
She was pretty as she could be
G                               F           C
Well I worked them oil rigs, on out in Odessa
            Bd           G
to give her whatever she needs
G                              F           C
But that girl she run, with an oil company bum
                    Bd         G
Cause a diamond was not on her hand
G                                  F         C
Well he left her soon, beneath the big lovin moon
              Bd        G
To go out and x-ray the land
      C              F           C
Now I sit in my car, New Rainbow Bar
G
Downtown
    C                        F                  C
The frost on the windshield, shines towards the sky
       G
Like a thousend tiny diamonds in the lights of lovin county

Well I walked in that bar, and drank myself crazy
just thinkin bout her and that man
When in walks a women, shes 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 women, shes dead

Now I drive down the highway, ten miles from my sweet babys arms
and the moon is so bright, it don't look like night
And a diamond how it sparkles in the lights of lovin county

Well she opened that door, and knelt on the floor
and I put that ring in her hand
She said I do, and she'd leave with me soon
to the rigs out in south alabam
Well I told her to hide, that ring there in side
and wait till the timin was good
And drove back home, and I was alone
cause I thought that she understood
But the next night an old friend, just called me to wish us
both well
Said he seen her down town, sashaying around

And her diamond how it sparkled in the lights of lovin county

Well that sheriff he found, me out wonderin around
El Paso the very next day
You see I lost my mind, on that broken white line
before I ever reached Val Meray
Now shes in Fort Worth, and shes just given birth
to the son of that oil company man
And they buried that poor old, sheriffs dead wife
with the ring that I stole on her hand
Sometimes they let me, look up at that east texas sky
the rain on the pines oh lord how it shines,

Like my darlins little diamond, in the lights of lovin county