There's a man who walks beside me
He is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him
and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for
on nights I'm not around
Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down ?
I was rougher than a timber shippin' out of Fond du Lac,
When I headed south at 17 the sheriff on my back
I'd never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze
So I found another victim every couple days
But the night I fell in love with her I made my weakness known
Through the fires and the farmers diggin' dusty fields alone
The jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted men
Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in
Well you couldn't stay a loner on the plains before the war
My neighbors took to slightin' me I had to ask what for.
Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town
Soon she'd heard about the boys I used to hang around.
We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter,killed a couple men aboard.
And I told her, her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword.
All the things that she'd suspected I'd expected her to fear
Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here
There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for on nights I'm not around
Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down ?
Well I carved a cross from live oak and a box from shortleaf pine
Buried her so deep she touched the water table line.
I picked up what I needed and I headed south again
To myself I wondered would I ever find another friend.
There's a man who walks beside her, he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me.
He is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him
and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for
on nights I'm not around
Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down ?
I was rougher than a timber shippin' out of Fond du Lac,
When I headed south at 17 the sheriff on my back
I'd never held a lover in my arms or in my gaze
So I found another victim every couple days
But the night I fell in love with her I made my weakness known
Through the fires and the farmers diggin' dusty fields alone
The jealous innuendos of the lonely hearted men
Let me know what kind of country I was sleeping in
Well you couldn't stay a loner on the plains before the war
My neighbors took to slightin' me I had to ask what for.
Rumors of my wickedness had reached our little town
Soon she'd heard about the boys I used to hang around.
We'd robbed a Great Lakes freighter,killed a couple men aboard.
And I told her, her eyes flickered like the sharp steel of a sword.
All the things that she'd suspected I'd expected her to fear
Was the truth that drew her to me when I landed here
There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me
And I wonder who she's pinin' for on nights I'm not around
Could it be the man who did the things I'm living down ?
Well I carved a cross from live oak and a box from shortleaf pine
Buried her so deep she touched the water table line.
I picked up what I needed and I headed south again
To myself I wondered would I ever find another friend.
There's a man who walks beside her, he is who I used to be
And I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me.