Gail With The Golden Hair - The Handsome Family

Out in the red rock desert

Sitting on the roof of my car

Drinking cans of warm beer watching the sky get dark

Gail and I shot our empties with an old rusted rifle

Her golden hair went flying like a wild brush fire

When the mountains turned red at dusk

Time passed in the burning desert and the tumbleweeds they tumbled

We lay in a golden fire as the screaming buzzards circled

Far down in the darkened valley the city lights still twinkled

But my eyes saw only Gail and her hair in golden fire

When the mountains turned red at dusk

But the fire burned right through her Gail followed unseen voices

They led her to the city deep in the darkened valley

I drove circles through the alleys calling my burning lover

But Gail ran deeper into the gloom screaming at the street lights

And I lost her there forever deep in the valleys darkness

My Gail with the golden hair that burned as bright as fire

When the mountains turned red at dusk