Margarita - Paul Williams

Her family lives in a trailer

Five miles out of town

He’s crazy said the neighbors

I was white--she was brown

But we’d just run to the river

And lay our bodies down

Between her sighs we’d love away the lies

That followed us around

Margarita, Margarita

The softness of your body and the hunger in my soul

Are the only secrets I’ll ever know

Margarita

We grew up together

While our families worked the land

And the shadows never touched

The places where we ran

But as the years went driftin' by

The harvest turned to sand

She went away--I had to stay

I’ll never understand

Margarita, Margarita

The softness of your body and the hunger in my soul

Are the only secrets I’ll ever know

Margarita

Sometimes in the evenin'

At the closing of the day

I look down on the valley

Where we used to lay

And now there’s just a whisper

Of an old familiar name

Margarita, give anything to see you

It feels that good to say

Margarita, Margarita

The softness of your body and the hunger in my soul

Are the only secrets I’ll ever know

Margarita