Song: Town Drunk
Singer: Love

She used to come over to my house
she only lived a few miles away
I never knew why but my mama said
if she wanted to she could stay
A pretty little girl who fought like a boy
but she wanted to hold my hand
In a little blue dress that she always wore
yeah, I might have been her only friend

I remember that summer like yesterday
she used to hang around all the time
Down by the creek we would always
play and tell secrets by the porch light
Shy as a bird and timid as a flower
I wondered where she grew up
I never really thought that much about it
but everybody said her daddy was the town drunk

Broken like a bottle
running from the only home she ever had
Tangled in the talk behind her back
Yeah, he thought she was nothin'
growing like a weed on the wrong side of the tracks
How could anyone not love a girl like that

One afternoon in the middle of town
I saw her daddy sleeping on a bench
So I walked up and introduced myself
and said his daughter was my best friend
He looked at me like he didn't care
and he asked me for a couple bucks
Right then I decided I'd look after that
pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk

A girl like that

A girl like that

Several years later
I read in the paper
that her daddy had passed away
I was holdin' her hand
she had the baby in the other
there was really nothing I could say
She looked at me and I gave her a kiss
All that mattered was the three of us
Nobody thought it would all work out for that
pretty little girl whose daddy was the town drunk