Showmen's Poet

She's Gone Away Blues

Riley Lincoln

West Palm Beach, FL

July 2012

She don't belong to you

You can't hold here real tight

You can't hold her real tight tonight

She's in another man's arms

And he is holding her real tight

You can't hold her real tight tonight

She's gone away

She won't be back another day

She's gone away to stay

You have lost your play

She's gone real far away

A little man wearing a big hat took her away

He was big and fat in a little hat

And he took her away

I think they're heading for Santa Fe

She don't belong to you anymore

She wasn't the sharpest spoon in the drawer

But she was your spoon

No more hugging under the moon

She's gone away

Like the big bird in the sky

She flew away

She's nesting in someone else's nest tonight

She's in someone else's nest

The fat man's holding her real tight

Under that vampire moon tonight

She's not yours anymore

She's gone away

She's not yours anymore

She's gone away with a little man in a big hat

And he's wearing a big money belt

That makes him look fat

She's gone away

Note: Big money belts always win