well i never planned to stay even as a kid it seemed too gray secretly id wait plotting my escape but a town like this just has a way of keeping you when papa suddenly up and passed away mama was never the same and it meant more chores for me there wasnt time to cry we still had a farm to run beaumont blues number one when i met savannah jean we were barely both sixteen we got to kissing quick ended up with a kid we were scared as hell broke as well but we married on the day they closed the factory they cut us out at three with only two weeks worth of severance and a hundred heaps of misery i told my wife and little lorabelle girls well make do beaumont blues number two my folks got married here are buried here and i carry the family name im proud of what they did but dammit if i aint doomed to do the same i aint doomed to do the same dear sheriff holloway i never meant to murder cody white but i saw red shot him dead for he had bed my wife i grabbed lorabelle and bolted east towards smithville i write you in surrender from the katy house motel send your boys to drag me back and put me in the darkest cell those bars wont feel no different than those city lines did to me beaumont blues number ill two step to the chair in dead mans shoes beaumont blues