Walk Through the Bottomland Lyle Lovett

[Verse]
A New Jersey lady I knew long ago
And she was a lady, I say
But she met a cowboy who rode on the rodeo
And he stole her heart straight away

The New Jersey lady she loved him so true
Another love she never had
But cowboys are lonesome and cowboys are blue
And they make the ladies so sad

[Chorus]
Sing me a melody, sing me a blues
Walk through the bottomland without no shoes
The Brazos she's running scared, she heard the news
Walk through the bottomland without no shoes

[Verse]
The New Jersey lady knew he loved her too
And you know she tried to hold on
But the rodeo life was the life that he knew
He had to keep drifting along

She never married and she never would
And all of the people they'd say
The New Jersey lady she just ain't no good
To follow a cowboy that way