The wind is high, you can hear it cry
All the way to the cold cold moon
And I hurt inside, in my heart tonight
I feel like crying too
Eleven months and a day
Was all the judge had to say
They took young Dan and locked him away
Yeah, weed was his crime
And young Dan did his time
Thinking about his pretty girl Mae
When they gave back his clothes
And put him out on the road
Pretty Mae was waiting in her car
There’s all kinds of free
But the best had to be
That first night back in pretty Mae’s arms
Well, they’ve shut up in a trailer backed up
To the sandbar and weeping willow creek
The creek ran low, the summer pa**ed slow
There’s never been a love so deep
Hey hey hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey yo
Now the beauty Ray
He headed back for pretty Mae
Couldn’t stand to see her with that ex con
Half a bottle of Scotch
Cradled in his clutch
He headed out there with his blue lights on
Thirty on six
Thinking that would do the trick
He run that ba*tard of down the road
Ray had his way
Getting on with pretty Mae
But first that ex con had to go
Hey hey hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey yo
Well Dan said to Ray
“What brings you out this way
Pretty Mae is just fixing up some grub”
But Ray was on a tear
And pretty Mae could hear him swear
“Just kept shouting, and wave with that gun”
No time to think
Underneath the sink
Pretty Mae kept a pistol of her own
Yeah, shots were fired
Broken gla**, a blown tire
But only the willow would know
They found a cruiser car
An empty trailer by the sandbar
And not another clue left behind
Yeah that beauty Ray
Young Dan and pretty Mae
Somebody lives, somebody moves like we die
Hey hey hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey hey hey yo
Hey hey hey hey yo
The wind is high, you can hear it cry
All the way to the cold cold moon