This song's played with a capo on the first fret. The verses are G F C Bb G and the choruses are G C F C G  
 
G                         F      C                Bb        G 
I loved a girl, she lived out in Pecos, pretty as she could be 
G                     F      C                   Bb           G 
I worked the rigs, on out in Odessa, to give her whatever she needs 
G                             F           C                         Bb         G     
But that girl she run with an oil company bum , 'cause a diamond was not on her hand 
G                           F          C                   Bb        G 
He left her soon 'neath the big lovin' moon, to go out and X-Ray the land 
 
Chorus: 
G               C        F           C          G      
Now I sit in my car, the new Rainbow Bar downtown 
G       C                        F                  C 
And the frost on the windshield, shines towards the sky 
G 
Like a thousand tiny diamonds in the lights of Loving County 
 
Well I walked in that bar, and drank myself crazy, thinkin' 'bout her and that man 
When in walked a woman, lookin' richer than sin, in ten years worth the work on her hand 
Well I followed her home, and when she was alone, well I put my gun to her head 
And I don't recall, what happened next at all, but now that rich woman, she's dead 
 
Now I drive down the highway, ten miles from my sweet baby's arms 
And the moon is so bright, it don't look like night 
And the diamond how it sparkles in the lights of Loving County 
 
Well she opened that door, and I knelt on the floor, and I put that ring in her hand 
She said, "I do" and she'd leave with me soon to the oil rigs out in south Alabam' 
Well I told her to hide, that ring there inside, and wait til the timing was good 
And I drove back home, and I was alone, because I thought that she understood 
 
Last night an old friend just called me to wish us both well 
Said he'd seen her downtown, sashayin' around 
And the diamond how it sparkled in the lights of Loving County 
 
Well that sheriff he found me out wanderin' all around, El Paso the very next day 
You see, I'd lost my mind, on that broken white line, 'fore I even reached Balmorea 
Now she's in Fort Worth, and she's just givin' birth, to the son of that oil company man 
And they buried that poor old, sheriff's dead wife with the ring that I stole on her hand 
 
Sometimes they let me look up at that East Texas sky 
And the rain on the pines, oh Lord how it shines 
Like a thousand tiny diamonds in the lights of Loving County