well, you walked that valley's grassy floor and climbed that hillyridge you stood there naked stung with fear and tippy-toed on theedge well, you swung on a vine, but crawled in the dirt and made theriver your best friend you ate ev'rything from a skunk to a perch and filled me up withZen
well, you went to a capella and you sang Acapulco, danced on acoin you tied six Mexicans up in chains, then hitch-hiked to DesMoines you put the tube in the tub when you joined a club, and took thesoles off your shoes but, baby, there's one thing you forgot to do
you got to love me more then the trees and stars high above me you got to love me, love me, love me all the time, if you wanna be mine (whhheeeewww....)
well, you turned my pockets inside out and my inside upsidedown took fourteen reds and shaved your head and let a semi run youdown you filed your teeth and chromed your feet, shot a fifteen underpar prayed thirteen days in eighteen ways then gurued in a bar
well you slipped me a Mickey and you read James Dickey, drank upall my wine you did all that then drowned a bat and bought a Wurlitzer ontime you ate barbecued stork with a spoon and a fork in a second-handfun'ral plot, but baby, there's one thing that you forgot
you got to love me more then the trees and stars high above me you got to love me, love me, love me all the time, if you want to be mine