RB Lonetree: ‘Brown-skin Woman’ and ‘How Can I Sleep With the Full Moon So?’

Brown-skin Woman

I got a brown-skin woman with ebony eyes
And a big heart, fair and true
She never gives me cause to cry
She loves me so and I love her too

We got a stretch of ground we call our own
In the South-land by the sea
And all we harvest is all we’ve sown
And that’s enough for her and me

And life passes as a dream
In that south-land by the sea
Me and my brown-skin woman
In that south-land by the sea

And I got a hound-dog big and blue
And loyal as the sun that shines
He bites the neighbours when they come around
But he don’t bite me or mine

I got a paint pony and a chestnut too
An’ they’re a pretty little pair
The paint don’t let me ride her, but the chestnut do
And I ride him everywhere

Over the rolling hills of sand
And down beside the sea
Back through the bottomlands
And home he carries me

And life passes as a dream
In that South-land by the sea
Me and my brown-skin woman
In that south-land by the sea
                        RB Lonetree

How Can I Sleep…