Jerico Springs

Lyrics

[Verse 1] My boots were cooked with cloud gray dust And mouth craves something cool Went around the bend the road cut in By clear blue spring fed pool As I knelt to cool my sunburned brows One color caught my eye And reflected there was a tall young girl Against the clear blue sky [Verse 2] I turned to find dark eyes behind A small face, golden tan The sunlight softened in her hair As she brushed a fallen strand "It's hot", she smiled, "I know a set Of cool water's a welcome change" She raised her head and then she said "When it comes from Jerico Springs" [Chorus] Where the Ozark breeze blows soft in the trees The thresh and the bluebirds sing At the end of the world, a show-me girl Walks down by Jerico Springs [Verse 3] Through longer days my wandering ways Were lost, forgotten things I found a room in the nearby town Called Jerico by the Springs And I walked a girl with the honey blonde hair And eyes, blue crystal bright Through July haze of butterfly days And July firefly nights [Verse 4] To my surprise, in her innocent eyes A love began to grow And one night by the spring, as a bullfrog sing I promised I'd never go For the cold old world seemed far away And it could not match the things I've found in the love of a show-me girl On the banks of Jerico Springs [Chorus] Where the Ozark breeze blows soft in the trees The thresh and the bluebirds sing At the end of the world, a show-me girl Walks down by Jerico Springs [Verse 5] It was plain to see how she cared for me But as we walked out one day I teased her saying I planned to leave Just to see what she would say Big, salt tears came in her eyes And before I could explain She turned and ran into the woods That lay by Jerico Springs [Verse 6] Well, I called and called her soft, sweet name And I followed the best I could But I soon was lost in the tall dark trees In the silent, gray-green wood By the time I found that rock dust road The sun was going down And in half light, in thread of night I walked on back to town [Verse 7] When the sun was rising new and red At my door came a knock I stumbled through the still dark room And I fumbled at the lock "I'm sorry, sir", the stranger said "It's sad news that I bring But a girl's been found, face down and drowned In the waters of Jerico Springs" [Outro] Where the Ozark breeze blows soft in the trees The thresh and the bluebirds sing At the end of the world, a show-me girl Sleeps down by Jerico Springs