Cappo 6th fret 
 
Intro: D C G F D 
 
Verse 
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I loved a girl she lived out in Pecos pretty as she could be 
 
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And I worked the rigs on out in Oddessa to give her whatever she needs 
 
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But that girls she runs with an oil company bum cause a diamond was not on her 
 
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hand 
 
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But He left her soon neath the big Loving moon to go out and x-ray the land 
 
Chorus 
 
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Now I sit in my car the new rainbow bar downtown 
 
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And the frost on the wind sheild shines towards the sky 
 
       D 
Like a thousand tiny diamonds in the lights of Loving County 
 
Verse 
 
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Well I walked in that bar and I drank myself crazy thinkin bought her and that 
 
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man 
 
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When in walked a woman lookin richer than sin and ten years worth of work on 
 
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her hand 
 
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Well I followed her home and when she was alone I put my gun to her head 
 
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And I dont recall what happened next at all but now that rich woman she's dead 
 
Chorus 
 
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Now I drive down the highway ten miles from my sweet baby's arms 
 
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And the moon is so bright it don't look like night 
 
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and the diamond how it sparkles in the lights of Loving County 
 
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Verse 
 
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Well she opened that door and I knelt on the floor 
 
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and I put that ring in her hand 
 
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And she said I do and she'd leave with me soon to the rigs out in south Alabam 
 
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Well I told her to hide that ring there inside and wait till the timin was  
good 
 
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And I drove back home and I was alone cause I thought that she'd understood 
 
Chorus 
 
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The next night an old friend just called me to wish us both well 
 
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said he'd seen her downtown sashay'in around 
 
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and her diamond how it sparkled in the lights of Loving County 
 
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Verse 
 
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Well that sheriff he found me out wonder'n all around El Paso the very next  
day 
 
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You see I'd lost my mind on that broken white line 
 
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before I even reached Balmaray 
 
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Now she's in Ft.Worth and she's just givin birth 
 
                   F           D  
to the son of that oil company man 
 
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And they burried that poor old sheriffs dead wife 
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with the ring that I stole on her hand 
 
Chorus 
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Sometimes they let me look up at that East Texas sky 
 
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and the rain on the pines oh lord how it shines 
 
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like my darlins little diamond in the lights of Loving County 
 
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