Red-Haired Darlin

(Verse 1)

She had hair like the embers of a hard coal fire

Eyes soft as spring rain, lips full of desire

But I let my temper bite, let the bottle win

Now I’m sleepin’ in the silence of the mess I’m in

(Verse 2)

She was wildflower sweet in a field of stone

The hymn in my chest when the night felt cold

But I ran her down with the weight of my pride

Now it’s just me and my shame with no place to hide

(Chorus)

Oh my red-haired darlin’, don’t turn away

I been a hard man learnin’ the hardest way

I’ll trade this hurt, I’ll bury my sins

If you’ll let me prove I can love again

(Verse 3)

I still see her hair in the break of dawn

Like a fire on the hills when the night is gone

If time was a river, I’d swim upstream

Bring her back to the banks of my broken dream

(Bridge)

I’ll lay down my whiskey, I’ll lay down my pride

Walk barefoot through briars just to be by her side

She’s the reason I sing, she’s the prayer in my night

And I’ll do her right if she’ll give me that light

(Final Chorus)

Oh my red-haired darlin’, don’t turn away

I been a hard man learnin’ the hardest way

I’ll trade this hurt, I’ll bury my sins

If you’ll let me prove I can love again

(Outro)

Yeah, that ginger girl with the fire in her hair

I lost her once — Lord, don’t leave me there