Two Girls

(Townes Van Zandt) The clouds didn't look like cotton They didn't even look like clouds I was underneath the weather All my friends look like a crowd The swimmin' hole was full of rum And I tried to find out why All I learned was this, my friend You got to swim before you fly I got two girls One's in heaven, one's below One I love with all my heart And one I do not know Two lonesome dudes on a ugly horse Passed by not long ago They asked me where the action was I said that I did not know As they disappeared into the brush I heard the driver say He's a little slow between the ears He's always been that way I got two girls One's in heaven, one's below One I love with all my heart And one I do not know Jolly Jane just lays around And listens with her mouth She's had about a dozen husbands But the last one just pulled out Now who's gonna bring her dinner Through the weary years ahead All she'll get from me is sympathy Ain't got time to see she's fed I got two girls One's in heaven, one's below One I love with all my heart And one I do not know Cold down on the bayou They say it's in your mind But the moccasins are treadin' lee And leavin' strange designs The Cajun say the last time This happened they weren't here Beaumont's full of penguins And I'm playin' it by ear I got two girls One's in heaven, one's below One I love with all my heart And one I do not know