Gail With The Golden Hair Lyrics - Singing Bones - 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 turn 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 the darkened valley 

The city lights still twinkle 

But my eyes saw only beauty 

And her hair in golden fire 

When the mountains turn red at dusk 

But the fire burned right through her 

It 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 streetlights 

And I lost her there forever 

Deep in the valley's darkness 

My Gail with the golden hair 

That burned as bright as fire 

When the mountains turn red at dusk