A Diamond Took My Place (Buddy Melton)

A Diamond Took My Place

Down by the bend of the river
Under the highest bridge in town
Beneath the rocks and the water
A treasure can be found

Ain’t no legend to surround it
No tale of better days
Just a heartache for an old poor boy
And six months of hard-earned pay

No it ain’t a natural wonder- I put it there myself
Just to serve as a reminder- of the emptiness that I felt
Now each time I cross that river- I say a word of grace
For it makes my body shiver- that a diamond took my place

On that fateful night by the meadow
My whole world fell apart
Said she couldn’t take the ring that I bought her
For someone had stole her heart

So there I stood on the bridge in my misery
And prepared to take my life
Was no need to carry on with tomorrow
If she would not be my wife

No it ain’t a natural wonder- I put it there myself
Just to serve as a reminder- of the emptiness that I felt
Now each time I cross that river- I say a word of grace
For it makes my body shiver- that a diamond took my place

Still it makes my body shiver…