Town Drunk (Love and Theft)

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