Little Blossom - Reckless Kelly

Little Blossom choked and her daddy croaked

Her sad face toked and her long pipe smoked

She drank herself to sleep most every night

She had colts to ride a few steers to find

Deer meat, fish and spuds to fry

But inside she cried somehow my life ain’t right

She knew she had to take a big ride

Across the desert and the valley wide

Pass a couple little towns to another one that she knew

She left her saddle and her medicine belt

With her old uncle cause he knew how she felt

Made a big her bones and away she flew

She looked at me through bleary eyes

And when she spoke, much to my surprise

She told me things I would have never known

She was takin' her meals back to Mexico

She quoted Bob Dylan and Geronimo

We ate lots of mushrooms and chased 'em down with Joe Crow

She told me she’d been stabbed three times

Been married twice and been on the wine

Smokin' cigarettes don’t stunt your growth

And you can bury your heart at wounded knee

Or get a scan from the university

Somehow I had the feelin' she’d done both

«You can praise the Lord and bury your dead

Or you can be your own God,» she said

«I've sold myself but I have made a livin'»

So buy me drinks and toast to my health

Tomorrow I’ll forgive myself

I’ve got nobody else doin' me forgivin'

She was makin' me a proposition

If I would just shut up and listen

She’d pay me back in time when she got home

With a little help from the stars and moon

She said I won’t be returnin' soon

I told her she could call me on the phone

Now Little Blossom combs out her hair

And lives alone way out there

At night she lays her tired old body down

She rides some colts and runs some steers

Deals with all her doubts and fears

Does her best to stay away from town

Nah it don’t do to stay too long in town