Border Town Girl

At theborder town crossing they went on their way
Just a preacher and his family with everything to say
They left that old home and drove undeterred
South of the river to spread the good word

She's a border town girl standing out on the corner
One at a time she's writing our wrongs
She does what she's told she doesn't know better
She's a border town girl singing her song

Big sister to eight she's the perfect young daughter
She cooked and she cleaned and carried the water
But it all had to wait when daddy came home
For his out to the corner they all had to go

She's a border town girl standing out on the corner
One at a time she's writing our wrongs
she does what she's told she doesn't know better
She's a border town girl singing her song

They wake up and pack up and get out of town
In a painted old bus they tour all around
In the city they find sinners and thieves
And the border town girl should do as she please

She's a border town girl standing out on the corner
One at a time she's writing our wrongs
She does what she's told she doesn't know better
She's a border town girl singing her song

Ss she got older and a little bit wiser
She broke all the chains locked up inside her
She read every book she could get in her hands
And on that old corner she no longer stands

Ahe's a border town girl
Just a border town girl
One at a time she's writing her wrongs
She does what she wants she finally knows better
She's a border town girl singing her song
She's a border town girl singing this song