Delia

Delia, Delia, how can it be?
You say you love them all around us
But you never will love me
Gonna be one more round the gone
Delia, Delia, she said I'm all alone
One of your riders here
Gonna pay my way back home
Gonna be one more round the gone
Well Delia was a gambler
She rambled all around
She were one girl who never let that deal go down
Gonna be one more round the gone
Now I climbed up on the highest top
I got as high as I could be
You say you love them all around us
But you never will love me
Gonna be one more round the gone
Delia, Delia, why didn't you run?
You seen that desperado comin'
With his forty-four smokin' his gun
Cryin' it's one more round the gone
There's a rubber-tired carriage
And a double-seated hack
Gonna take Delia to the graveyard
Ain't never gonna bring her back
Now there's one more round the gone
Delia's mother weeps
Delia's father moan
And they wouldn't have hated it so bad
If their child had died at home
There's one more round the gone
Now Kenny's in the jailhouse
He's a-drinkin' out of a silver cup
Delia's in the graveyard
And she ain't never gonna get up
Never gonna get up
One more round the gone
He's sayin' "Janna, Janna, how can I sleep?
All around my bed at night
I can hear little Delia's feet"
Now there's one more round the gone
Well that judge, he said to Kenny
I'll tell you how it's gonna be
Son, I'm gonna hang your body up
And set your spirit free
Gonna be one more round the gone
Delia, Delia, how can it be?
You say you love them all around us
But you never will love me
There's one more round the gone
Now there's one more round the gone
And it's all right that it's gone