The Portentous Begginings Of Daniel The Brave

i was wanderin in a desert town waitin on a wire met a brown hair girl preachin brimstone and fire she drove an old pick up, she had dust on her shoes she said “let's make for the sunrise, he's called us to move” well i jumped up in shotgun thinkin what could i lose i think love is the strangest creation i could dream to know ) she drove fast like a rocket, straight like a train 120 miles out she asked me my name at a little truck stop she told them all to reach for the sky she held up a pistol, there was a grin to her eye she threw me a bible, said to read them a line well i sang like a preacher while she took every dime i think love is the strangest creation i could dream to know we had us a child, called him daniel the brave we were living in a shack behind a navajo grave i woke one morning to a rope and some words on a sheet she was hangin and the note read "babe, i'm just countin sheep and when i get to 100, in heaven we'll meet" i think love is the strangest creation i could dream to know now me and daniel travel with the wind at our backs sleepin out on freight beds, sharin bread from my pack i don't now about religion but i'd like to believe that if there's a heaven she's waiting for me where the trucks all drive fast and the mileage is free i think love is the strangest creation (Let ring to end) i could dream to know