The Portentous Beginnings 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
I could dream to know