Jackie

Half a section in the short grass at the foot of the plains Grows broomweed in the dry times, ragweed when it rains It's all she's got left that the lawyers don't claim Jackie does her damn best, never one to complain She's been green breaking horses when she's home from the road Waiting on dispatch to find her a load She leased all but the trap, ponies can't graze a thing Another bobtail of coastal ought to last them 'til spring There were pitchers on the tables and kids running 'round Four generations of a blinking light town It was the Cotton Eyed Joe or maybe just the right glance She got to going with Randy at the Friday night dance I just got two rules, if my conscience be known Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class Life's just too crazy for that Randy says not to worry, he'll feed while she's gone She's got the Freightliner idling half up on his lawn He don't like her driving when the northers come blue But if the horses went hungry Lord knows what she'd do 'Round Christmas up the Caprock you can see all the towns And the courthouses lit up for ten miles around It's a magical time to be traveling the roads Watch the country roll by in the halogens' glow I just got two rules, if my conscience be known Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class Life's just too crazy for that She jack knifed on black ice with an oversized load There's a white cross in the borrow ditch where she went off the road She wasn't going that fast, the responders all say How it ended that bad, we can wonder all day I just got two rules, if my conscience be known Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class Life's just too short for all that I just got two rules, if my conscience be known Don't lie to me, don't bring me nothing home Faithful's a nice word in Sunday school class Life's just too short for all that Life's just too short for all that For all that