Well, I sure take it with me wherever I go   And you might like to see it but it never does show   Like a wind in the valley that never does blow   Like the grass in the back you never did mow      It's a black sky formin' on the ridge   It's a woman waitin' standin' on the bridge   It's the price that you pay for walkin' on the ledge   It's everythin' you do and nothin' that you did      Well, you might see me drivin' in the wrong side of town   And you might see me shinin' when the rain's comin' down   Like a diamond that's hidin' in the lost and found   Like a coon that's runnin' from a red bone hound      It's a black sky formin' on the ridge   It's a woman waitin' standin' on the bridge   It's the price that you pay for walkin' on the ledge   It's everythin' you do and nothin' that you did      Well, the wood keeps burnin' in the old wood stove   And the cows keep goin' where they done been drove   And a light keeps glowin' in a dead man's cove   And a loom keeps spinnin' where the weave gets wove      It's a black sky formin' on the ridge   It's a woman waitin' standin' on the bridge   It's the price that you pay for walkin' on the ledge   It's everythin' you do and nothin' that you did