By the light of the moon   To a 50's tune   He pledged his love to her   A girl so rare   A girl so fair   The girl for him for sure   He could see himself getting up every mornin'   For the rest of his life   Just to look in those eyes so blue   It was all he ever wanted to do   She was all he'd ever need to see him through      They were still in their teens   When he gave her the ring   They were married late one May   And they moved into a little house   On the far end of town   Out by the big highway   And all through the days   And all through the nights   The cars and trucks rolled on by   And he slept through it all just fine   Every night he slept just fine      Sometimes she'd stare at the stars out the window   Sometimes she'd walk `neath the moon   Sometimes she'd sit there just watching him sleeping   Hoping the dawn would come soon      She'd done well in school   She'd followed the rules   And she'd always stood out from the rest   She'd go off to college   And work her way through   Then move to some city out west   She had it all planned   She'd have her career   She'd have all of the things that she'd always lacked      She'd wake up one morning all packed   And leave here and never look back      Most of her friends thought it soon would be over   Not many thought it would last   Most seemed to think they were all wrong for each other   And soon it would pass - soon it would pass      Now twenty years have gone   And her kids have moved on   And she's still on the far end of town   Her youngest - she's livin' somewhere in L.A.   And her oldest - he works on a nearby farm   Her husband comes home   And they talk over supper   He's usually the first to turn in   Another day comes to an end   Another day just ends      And sometimes in the wee hours when the traffic dies down   She'll hear the sound of some bird on the wing   And she'll look out the window and she'll look at his picture   But not at the ring - not at the ring   She never looks at the ring