Ballad of a Fair Young Lady - Goodnight, Texas

Oh a fair young lady I

Used to see when walking buy

Caught my love by happenstance

Now I rarely catch a glance

I wish that I had known her all the while

Well I got my courage up

On an empty coffee cup

Went a callin' at her door

She let me in at my implore

Well I listened as she told me of the year

When far away she lost her love so dear

She said my sweetheart in Tennessee

Built a banjo just for me

Made of wood as red as clay

But it hurts my heart to play

And he’s gone to find his fortune in the hills

And I said this continents too wide

For you to spend your life inside

Your much too beautiful you know

To have no other place to go

But she turned her back to me and walked away

Well I never cared for banjo anyway