Black-Eyed Susan - Laura Veirs

Twenty days walking so lonely and talking to myself and the rocks and sand

Got me to thinking 'bout going and drinking in a tavern with a clean-shaven man

Just when I thought all souls had been bought by the devil here long ago

There did i see when I knelt to my knee a little Texas flower grow

Black-eyed Susan by the roadside blooming all yellow like sunshine,

red like wine

Flower like you in a desert this cruel

My my, you’re a rare rare find

Well my newfound friend gave my heart a mend

I sang her songs of my wayward ways

As day turned to night in the crystal moonlight

I confirmed her unwavering gaze

As the days unraveled I stayed in the gravel

And Susan kept her eye on me

With my eye on her I felt my heart all astir

With the joy of camaraderie