Young Lover's Waltz - Robert Earl Keen

Bob Wills is playing the old London hall

The whole town was out in their best

There is a boy called Caballo he sported a plow

Fell in love with a girl in the blue cotton dress

Now they weren’t much on dancing that grand ballroom style

But they shuffled across the dance floor in time

She said I’ve nothing to offer he said I’ve nothing to take from you

Except for your heart if you’ll say you’ll be mine

Young Lovers waltzing on the town square at dawn

Round, round the courthouse with no chaperone

It’s a turn for a heartbeat and a turn for a sigh

It’s a turn for the waltzers that can’t say goodbye

There was biscuits and gravy sweat on the ground

Harvesting late in the eve

And he lay with his blue girl when they lost their first child

Holding her to him away in their dreams

Young Lovers waltzing on the town square at dawn

Round, round the courthouse with no chaperone

It’s a turn for a heartbeat and a turn for a sigh

It’s a turn for the waltzers that can’t say goodbye

The shadows grew longer the porch swing turned gray

The sunlight gave way to the moon

And I old Caballo rocking away

Hums to his blue girl an old bob wills tune

Young Lovers waltzing on the town square at dawn

Round, round the courthouse with no chaperone

It’s a turn for a heartbeat and a turn for a sigh

It’s a turn for the waltzers that can’t say goodbye