Darrell Scott - Rhonda's Last Ride lyrics

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She was found in her bedroom with a note on the wall Saying take me or leave me, it don't matter now at all Her passing made the papers though there weren't much to say Just a girl of the night takes her life at midday She was fond of the ladies and good to the men And she could take you 'bout anywhere that you'd never been Though I never touched her we'd walk every day Heading west down Sunset talking our lives away Said she could walk on the waterbed, shoot out the lights Take you up to the limits, push you over the line Said if you wanna see God, brother, close your eyes... This one's for Rhonda's last ride There's a town in Nevada, just across the state line Where Rhonda grew up ahead of her time Why, if I had to say, it's her daddy to blame Old desert rat Cody set her childhood to flame And there were GI's and truckers and ghosts of the road On their way up to Vegas they'd lighten their load There was many a lover but nary complained And it was many a man who'd call out her name I'm not here to tell you she died out of shame In her last chosen moment, her lips cursed no name Not Cody nor Jesus, not a cry out for love She told me to tell you that leaving's enough