Don't Take the Girl

You can take my blue dress

just wash it clean

You can take my dirty hands

And bath them in your stream

You can take my lips of red

And wet them with your earth

Oh but I’m telling you

Don’t take the girl

You can take these stars of mine

And hold them in your sky

You can take that white face of yours

And put in the moon up high

You can take my summer sun and

Let it soak up the world

Oh but I’m telling you

Don’t take the girl

Oh but I’m telling you

You can’t take the girl

And you can shake these clouds of mine and let the rain within them fall

And you can take these nights so dark and let them break upon your dawn

And you can plant these fields of faith and let them grow on your fertile soil,

Oh but I’m telling you

Don’t take the girl

You can cut my red shoes off

And dance in my blood

You can take this soul of mine

And nurse it like a cub

You can spin me with your words of wisdom

Just watch me twirl

Oh but I’m telling you

Don’t take the girl

You can take these tears I’ve cried let em quench your thirst

You can wear these scars I hide expose them for what they’re worth

You can sing my song to sleep do not disturb

Oh but I’m telling you

Don’t take the girl

You can take this flesh of mine

And wrap it round yours

You can take this breath I breath

Just let it roar

You can open this heart of stone

To reveal its pearl

Oh but I’m telling you

Don’t take the girl

Oh but I’m warning you

Don’t take the girl

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Lyrics submitted by Redtown.