Desdemona

I was living south of Beaumont in a muddy cheap hotel
 I was drilling all my money into a salt dome on the hill
 You came along and everything changed
 Gusher came in blowing like a black hurricane
 Where'd you go Desdemona
 Where did you go
 Can't make it here without you
 Where did you go
 Up in Eastland County, gave a town your name
 Near the barrooms of Ranger, the boomtowns of the plains
 Many a man tried to make you stay
 But now they're in the ground and you're gone away
 Where'd you go Desdemona
 Where did you go
 It's no life here without you
 Where did you go
 Oil reservoirs collapsed, gas pressure's gone
 Roughnecks and gamblers moved out and moved along
 The river is dead, the timber's trucked out on the roads
 Remember the days when that oil money flowed
 Where'd you go Desdemona
 Where did you go
 Can't make it here without you
 Where'd you go Desdemona
 Where did you go
 You gave a town your name and nothing else to show
 There's no life here without you
 Desdemona, where did you go