When I was a young man in Sweetwater Texas
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Just one thing stayed on my mind
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To ride a white horse over Durango Mountain
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And leave Sweetwater Texas behind
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Well I turned twenty-one there in Sweetwater Texas
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And just one thing made me stay there
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I wanted to leave but I was in love with
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the girl with the chestnut brown hair
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Then there came a time
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when she said she be mine
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And go any place anytime
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So we rode a gray dog over Durango Mountain
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And left Sweetwater Texas behind
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It was thunderin' and lightin' when we left Nolan County
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And the bus rolled along through the night
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And ole thirty-six was a magic black demon
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leading towards the cities bright lights
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It was ten in the mornin' when we rolled in to Houston
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Our hopes where as high as the sky
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But hopes turned to weeks, then to years, and then forever
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I never knew how fast time goes by
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And cowboys sellin' cars
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and country girls in bars
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Somehow just don't seem fair
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And I wanted to die 'cause I knew I was losin'
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The girl with the chestnut brown hair
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So many times I said
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I'd rather be dead
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than to take downs to go to bed
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and ups to clear my head
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But if the good Lord sees his way
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to let me live one more day
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I'm so tired of being alone
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Gonna ride a white horse over Durango Mountain
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And make Sweetwater Texas my home
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Sweetwater Texas
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| The Charlie Daniels Band |
