I Lost a Love Back Then

I went to Galveston one time In the Spring of the year I was just a cowboy back then An' had no thought of fear I'd never seen the waves roll in Or heard the muted roar The smell of salt was new to me As nothing else before I touched the sand and thought of home But that was desert sand This was gentle to the fingers And felt a foreign land I met a girl there just by chance Laughing and sun tanned through She stared a little at my boots - "Surely there's more to you?" We talked little and loved a lot A magic world we'd found No need to think of tomorrow Our feet were on this ground Time passed quickly, she said goodbye No talk of who she was Just a short love in the sunshine The sort of thing young does I was just a cowboy back then An' had no thought of fear I lost a love in Galveston In the Spring of that year