Brownsville Girl Songtext
von Bob Dylan

Well, there was this movie I seen one time
About a man riding ′cross the desert and it starred Gregory Peck
He was shot down by a hungry kid trying to make a name for himself
The townspeople wanted to crush that
Kid down and string him up by the neck
Well, the marshal, now he beat that kid to a bloody pulp
As the dying gunfighter lay in the sun and gasped for his last breath
Turn him loose, let him go, let him say he outdrew me fair and square
I want him to feel what it's like to every moment face his death
Well, I keep seeing this stuff and it just comes a-rolling in
And you know it blows right through me like a ball and chain
You know I can′t believe we've
Lived so long and are still so far apart
The memory of you keeps callin' after me like a rollin′ train
I can still see the day that you came to me on the painted desert
In your busted down Ford and your platform heels
I could never figure out why you chose that particular place to meet
Ah, but you were right, it was perfect as I got in behind the wheel
Well, we drove that car all night into San Anton′
And we slept near the Alamo, your skin was so tender and soft


Way down in Mexico you went out to
Find a doctor and you never came back
I would have gone on after you but I
Didn't feel like letting my head get blown off
Well, we′re drivin' this car and
The sun is comin′ up over the Rockies
Now I know she ain't you but she′s here
And she's got that dark rhythm in her soul
But I'm too over the edge and I ain′t in
The mood anymore to remember the times when
I was your only man
And she don′t want to remind me
She knows this car would go out of control
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
Love
Well, we crossed the panhandle and then we headed towards Amarillo
We pulled up where Henry Porter used to live
He owned a wreckin′ lot outside of
Town about a mile
Ruby was in the backyard hanging
Clothes, she had her red hair tied back
She saw us come rolling up in a trail of dust
She says, "Henry ain't here but you can
Come on in, he′ll be back in a little while."
Then she told us how times were tough
And about how she was thinkin' of bummin′ a
Ride back to from where she started
But she changes subject every time money came up
She said, "Welcome to the land of the living dead."
But you can tell she was so broken-hearted
She said, "Even the swap meets
Around here are getting pretty corrupt."
"How far are y'all going?" Ruby asked us with a sigh
"We're going all the way ′til the wheels fall off and burn
′Til the sun peels the paint and the seat
Covers fade and the water moccasin dies."
Ruby just smiled and said, "Ah, you know some babies never learn."
Something about that movie though
Well I just can't get it out of my head
But I can′t remember why I was in it
Or what part I was supposed to play
All I remember about it was Gregory Peck and the way people moved
And a lot of them seemed to be lookin' my way
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
If you show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you′re my honey
Love
Well, they were looking for somebody with a pompadour
I was crossin' the street when shots rang out
I didn′t know whether to duck or to run, so I ran
"We got him cornered in the churchyard," I heard somebody shout
Well, you saw my picture in the Corpus
Christi Tribune. Underneath it, it said, "A
Man with no alibi."
You went out on a limb to testify for me, you said I was with you
Then when I saw you break down in
Front of the judge and cry real tears
It was the best acting I saw anybody do
Now I've always been the kind of person
That doesn't like to trespass but sometimes
You just find yourself over the line
Oh if there′s an original thought out there, I could use it right now
You know, I feel pretty good
But that ain′t sayin' much. I could feel a whole lot
Better
If you were just here by my side to show me how
Well, I′m standin' in line in the
Rain to see a movie starring Gregory Peck
Yeah, but you know it′s not the one that I had in mind
He's got a new one out now, I don′t even know what it's about
But I'll see him in anything so I′ll stand in line
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you′re my honey
Love
You know, it's funny how things never
Turn out the way you had ′em planned
The only thing we knew for sure about
Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry
Porter
And you know there was somethin′ about
You baby that I liked that was always too
Good for this world
Just like you always said there was
Something about me you liked that I left behind
In the French Quarter
Strange how people who suffer together
Have stronger connections than people who
Are most content
I don't have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I′m gone
You always said people don't do what they
Believe in, they just do what's most convenient
Then they repent
And I always said, "Hang on to me
Baby, and let′s hope that the roof stays on."
There was a movie I seen one time, I think I sat through it twice
I don′t remember who I was or where I was bound
All I remember about it was it starred
Gregory Peck, he wore a gun and he was shot
In the back
Seems like a long time ago, long before the stars were torn down
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville
Curls, teeth like pearls shining like the
Moon above
Brownsville girl
Show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey
Love