Lyrics:

(Lyle Lovett)A New Jersey lady I knew long agoAnd she was a lady I sayBut she met a cowboy who rode on the rodeoAnd he stole her heart straight awayThe New Jersey lady she loved him so trueAnother love she never hadBut cowboys are lonesome and cowboys are blueAnd they make the ladies so sadSing me a melodySing me a bluesWalk through the bottomland without no shoesThe Brazos she's running scaredShe heard the newsWalk through the bottomland without no shoesThe New Jersey lady knew he loved her tooAnd you know she tried to hold onBut the rodeo life was the life that he knewHe had to keep drifting alongShe never married and she never wouldAnd all of the people they'd sayThe New Jersey lady she just ain't no goodTo follow a cowboy that waySing me a melodySing me a bluesWalk through the bottomland without no shoesThe Brazos she's running scaredShe heard the newsWalk through the bottomland without no shoesThe lady she'd sing him to sleep in the nightAnd then in the morning he'd goShe loved the darkness and hated the lightAlong with that damn rodeoThe New Jersey lady the day that he diedShe covered him over with clayAnd feeling the wind in the night as she criedShe heard the old cowboy saySing me a melodySing me a bluesWalk through the bottomland without no shoesThe Brazos she's running scaredShe heard the newsWalk through the bottomland without no shoes