Love And Theft - Town Drunk Lyrics
She used to come over to my house, she only lived a few miles awayI never knew why but my mama said if she wanted to she could stayA pretty little girl who fought like a boy but she wanted to hold me handAnd the little blue dress that she always wore, yeah it might have been herOnly friendI remember that summer like yesterday she used to hang around all the timeDown by the creek we would always play and tell secrets by the porch lightShy as a bird and timid as a flower, I wonder where she grew upI never really thought that much about it, but everybody said her daddy wasThe town drunkBroken like a bottle, running from the only hole she ever had, tangled inThe talk behind her backYeah he thought she was nothing, growing like a weed on the wrong side ofThe trscksHow could anyone not love a girl like thatOne afternoon in the middle of town I saw her daddy sleeping on a benchSo I walked up and introduced myself and said his daughter was my bestFriendHe looked at me like he didn't care and asked me for a couple of bucksRight then I decided that I'd look after that pretty little girl whos daddyWas the town drunkBroken like a bottle, running from the only hole she ever had, tangled inThe talk behind her backYeah he thought she was nothing, growing like a weed on the wrong side ofThe trscksHow could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like thatBroken like a bottle, running from the only hole she ever had, tangled inThe talk behind her backYeah he thought she was nothing, growing like a weed on the wrong side ofThe tracksHow could anyone not love a girl like that, girl like thatSeveral years later I read in the paper that her daddy had passed awayI was holding her hand she had the baby in the other and there was reallyNothing I could sayShe looked at me and I gave her a kiss all that mattered was he three of usNobody thought it would all work out for that pretty little girl whos daddyWas the town drunk
