A worn out wife and a cowboy's uncle
Rode naked in the Navajo land
They were looking for a place to fight that battle
Between a woman and a man
But the guns were rusty and supplies were few
And a cast iron bit is hard to chew
And the rankest strangers could hardly find them now
The man was named Big Willy
He was a bearded, drunken dwarf
Back east he sold suspenders
And shot pool down on the wharf
The woman's name she didn't earn
She was the kind that never learned
That the blindest preacher couldn't sanctify them now
Their horses stumbled through shifting sands
And barely kept their feet
The sun burning down made them squint and frown
Through the shimmering waves of heat
No one knows what they hoped to find
For their bones are ground to dust with time
And the youngest child wouldn't ask about them now
The moon it glowed and the stars all shone
And the cactus flower bloomed
And the seed they conceived was the second coming
Of an unholy honeymoon
What they did there in the sand
Was intended to teach life's truth to man
But the filthiest angel would not receive them now
Way out beyond the lights of town
On uncloudy, moonless nights
Somewhere above the Milky Way
You might perceive two silent lights
The sinners who would not repent
Were ultimately heaven sent
And everyone can recognize them now