K-Bar Encounter

    I'll tell you of a girl I met
    I never got her name
    her age was twenty seven
    and her looks were far from plain 
       
    she was sitting in a montana bar
    with her new cowboy fellow
    playing pool and getting drunk
    with a couple from Pocatello
    
    I walked in and joined the party
    (they talk to strangers up there)
    we drank our beer and told our lies
    no one had a care
    
    In the course of the entertainment
    I asked this pert young lady
    what course of events had placed her
    in our company, oh so shady
    
    It seems she was an executive
    or manager or some such fate
    with United Parcel Service
    in some God awful eastern state
    
    but one day she woke up
    and Decided with a capital "D"
    that United Parcel Service
    was no fitting destiny
    
    She had heard the tales of Yellowstone
    of the people and the places
    so she rented her house, quit her job
    and headed for western spaces
    
    She's with us for the summer
    after that, she has no plan
    She's living her life, day by day
    hiking, laughing, and getting tan
    
    This woman reminded me of a basic truth
    for those who have the nerve
    just because you live the straight and narrow
    it's not too late to swerve
    
    
    THC - 1994