The Green Pajamas
She's Gone, She's Gone, She's Gone, Daddy She's Gone
It ain’t the swarming rays of heat that last all day and half the night It ain’t the boiling devil’s moon or the evil in your bloodshot eyes… It ain’t the way you hold your guns, it ain’t the way my mama died It ain’t the howling ‘round the tomb we did beneath the winter sky… It ain’t the demon dogs of plague, it ain’t the dark and endless sea In driving down and riding back I found the vampire spike for me She went away, ain’t never coming back She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone I’ve seen her taking cowboys home and I’ve seen them teaching her to ride Her mind is changed, her heart is cold, her body is frozen up inside Once I kissed her honey hair and asked her will you be my bride She smiled beneath my ‘coon skin cap, shivering and naked by my side She went away, ain’t never coming back She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone If this old house ever turns color it will surely turn to black For the sweetheart to me ain’t coming back Through this lonely world I stumble, my memories are crumpled Pictures of you, pictures of you All I’ve got is pictures of you It ain’t the fallout in the air or the silver autumn sky It ain’t the bats that fill the air when twilight comes, the cows to die… She went away, ain’t never coming back It ain’t the way your lover’s hair is pulled and tangled as she screams The way her soldier’s body falls, dead and mangled in my dreams She went away, ain’t never coming back She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone So I’m giving you this horse hair bow, my violin to play no more I’m leaving for the lands of snow for to mourn forever more She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone She’s gone, she’s gone, she’s gone, daddy she’s gone _____________________ by Jeff Kelly (c) 1990 Half The World Publishing BMI