God's gift to man

Well he met her in the navy, he was the hit of the class

She was a cute lil thing, he liked the way she shook her glass

And they ran out of Texas and he bought some land, yeah

And they settled in a mobile-home out by the Taco-stand

He was doin' things he didn't understand,

there was no way to explain she was

God's gift to man

Well he got a promotion and he got themselves a colored TV

Had the cable put in and they watched a round of "Jeopardy"

And they sat out in the evening and they watched the sun go down

And everything was good, they were livin' on the outside of town

They were traveling by and they didn't understand she was

God's gift to man

Yeah baby, tell me don't it feel good

That you know that We're livin' just like a young boy should ....yeah, yeah, yeah....

She went out to Houston where she was living in sin

Well he begged her on his belly but nobody moved in

She wound up in El Paso on the streets again

It was hard to take it but sometimes you just can't win

He was after lil lady that he didn't understand

and he couldn't understand that she was

God's gift to man

Well, I've seen her on TV just a couple of nights ago

She was was doin' a commercial, smilin'for some Aloe-soap

But I knew inside her heart was black as coal

There's no way to replace the amount of lovin' that lil girl stole

Yeah then she got it coming but she won't understand that she was

God's gift to man

Well I've been doin' things that I don't understand, but she was

God's gift to man