Tom T. Hall - Girl Who Read The Same Book All The Time lyrics

The girl from West Virginia read the same book all the time At first I thought perhaps she was unsettled in her mind She'd read it front to back and then she'd read it over again She knew that I knew she knew what happened in the end She would go to work each morning that's the book that she would take She'd read it on her lunch hour and she'd read it on her break Her calm expression never changed from page to page to page She knew that story never changed from day to day to day Some people said it was a book about a love affair That grew and grew throughout the years and never knew a care A book wherein the people love and dreams all turned out right They say she even took the book to bed with her at night ( ac.guitar ) I recall the tattered pages and the cover faded out Of a walkin' wind-blown woman by some old majestic house One day I even asked her why she did that and she said Mr Hall this is the best book I have ever read Some people say it was a book about a great romance She picked it up the night she didn't make the high school dance Ain't it strange what life can sometimes do to people's mind Like the girl from West Virginia reads the same book all the time