Sometimes Blue

Black Pearl
Tom Russell
© 1990 Frontera Music/ASCAP

Have you seen Miranda?
She's walking through the town
She has got one green eye
The other eye is brown
And as she walks
The air grows warm
Men stare down from rooms
She destroys the hidden line
Between the wise man
And the fool

(Chorus) She's a black pearl
She's a black pearl
She's a black pearl
She's not my girl
No....

They say down in Tango Town
The accordion is king
Where Astor Piazzola
Plays on the bandoneon
And outside 'neath an olive tree
The dust and sand it whirls
She tangos with the moonlight
That dangerous black pearl
(Chorus)

Don't talk to me of politics
Don't talk to me of war
For I have seen her secret things
Upon the shower door
I've seen presidents corrupted
I've seen kings down on their knees
It wasn't revolution
Lust was the disease
For some . . . (Chorus)