Painted Girls and Wine

(Jack Ripley)



Oh it's funny how wine makes fools

Out of men around women

And it's funny how women love men

Till their money is gone.



As I went down to Juarez town

To buy my love a ring

I stopped me by the tavern

Where the painted woman sing.



Says I, I'll take one look inside

But I'll not touch that wine

And in the morn I'll buy the ring

And Mary will be mine.



Oh, it's funny how wine makes fools

Out of men around women

And it's funny how women love men

While the wine flows on.



It's funny how wine makes fools

Out of men around women

And it's funny how women love men

Till their money is gone.



I walked me in and sat me down

Beside the candle light

And a painted girl walked by and said

Are you alone tonight.



I showed her all the money

That would buy my Mary's ring

And soon the wine began to flow

And we began to sing.



Now I walk the streets of Juarez town

With Mary on my mind

But every window I look me in

There's painted girls and wine.



I can't go on to Mary 'cause

I don't have the right

So I'll stay here in Juarez town

No matter what it brings.



Oh it's funny how wine makes fools

Out of men around women

And it's funny how women love men

Till their money is gone...