Sweetwater, Texas

When I was a young man in Sweetwater Texas

Just one thing stayed on my mind

To ride a white horse over Durango Mountain

And leave Sweetwater Texas behind

Well I turned twenty-one there in Sweetwater Texas

And just one thing made me stay there

I wanted to leave but I was in love with

the girl with the chestnut brown hair

Then there came a time

when she said she be mine

And go any place anytime

So we rode a gray dog over Durango Mountain

And left Sweetwater Texas behind

It was thunderin' and lightin' when we left Nolan County

And the bus rolled along through the night

And ole thirty-six was a magic black demon

leading towards the cities bright lights

It was ten in the mornin' when we rolled in to Houston

Our hopes where as high as the sky

But hopes turned to weeks, then to years, and then forever

I never knew how fast time goes by

And there was cowboys sellin' cars

and country girls in bars

Somehow it just don't seem fair

And I wanted to die 'cause I knew I was losin'

The girl with the chestnut brown hair

So many times I said

I would rather be dead

than to take downs to go to bed

and ups to clear my head

And if the good Lord see the way

to let me live one more day

I'm so tired of being alone

Gonna ride a white horse over Durango Mountain

And make Sweetwater Texas my home