Girl Who Read the Same Book All the Time

(Tom T. Hall)



The girl from West Virginia read the same book all the time

At first I thought perhaps she was unsettled in her mind

She'd read it front to back and then she'd read it over again

She knew that I knew she knew what happened in the end.



She would go to work each morning that's the book she would take

She'd read it on her lunch hour and she'd read it on her break

Her calm expression never changed from page to page to page

She knew that story never changed from day to day to day.



Some people said it was a book of outer love affair

That grew and grew throughout the years and never knew a care

A book where in the people love and dreams all turned out right

They say she even took the book to bed with her at night.



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I remember the tattered pages the the cover faded out

Of a walkin' wind blown woman by some old majestic house

One day I even asked her why she did that and she said

Mr. Hall this is the best book I have ever read.



Some people say it was a book of outer great romance

She picked it up that night and didn't make the high school dance

Ain't it strange what life can sometimes do to people's mind

Like the girl from West Virginia reads the same book all the time...