Mama wanted a movie star   Daddy wanted a ph.d.   All Sherry wanted was a little affection   Nobody was listening   So she caught a right with a guy in a truck   Down by the interstate   He said I'm headed for the city of angels   I can drop you anywhere along the way      The first time she saw them lights   Lawd she could not say a word   But he left her standin' on the strip   With her suitcase on the curb   And she saw a sign said please apply   Always lookin' for a pretty face   Aw, folks our little farmgirl was a big hit on the   Little stage...and she's      Livin a life   Totally outrageous   Puttin on the dog   And takin' it off in Vegas      I bet you wonder   What's gonna happen to her   Shhhhhh.....(listen)      There's a gideon bible in the cheap desk beside her bed   Sometimes she flips it open   But she avoids the words in red   'Cause Sherry can't believe the king of kings   Would give a dang about the city of sin   Why would he care anything about Sherry   After all she's been      Livin a life   Totally outrageous   Puttin on the dog   And takin' it off in Vegas      Hey y'all   Well last night she could not sleep   She was readin' that book again   Then she came across that story   That woman mary magdalene   Sherry cried right out loud   Lord, she's as rough as me   What will the good lord do   When they throw him a bad seed      Oh, Sherry - Sherry   Love's changed her   Mary was   Livin' a life totally outrageous   Puttin' on the dog   And takin' it off like Vegas      Now someone's puttin' on a cross   And shakin' off Vegas      Sherry's on a greyhound on her way home to El Paso   One black gideon bible and a heart as white as snow