No Man's Land lyrics

Many years ago in Brushcreak Georgia

Molly Marlo was a virgin girl

She lived a mile from a fool named Barney Dawson

Hell bent on getting inside Molly's world

He caught her after church one Sunday morning

And took her body with his rough hard hands

And walked off laughing as she lay there crying

Since then she's been known as No Man's Land

Molly Marlo was No Man's Land

Love could never grow in No Man's Land

The men all tried but she denied them

And they sighed and wrung their hands

But they couldn't go walking

In No Man's Land

Molly grew into a luscious beauty

Each man's head would turn as she walked by

And as their hot eyes watched her body moving

They'd swallow hard and shake their heads and sigh

Molly went to school and studied nursing

Now you might laugh but it's an honest fact

The first year that she nursed at Millards Clinic

Six men pretended they had heart attacks

Molly Marlo was No Man's Land

Love could never grow in No Man's Land

The men all tried but she denied them

And they sighed and wrung their hands

But they couldn't go walking

In No Man's Land

Years later Barney Dawson lay in prison

In feverish pain that suffering shell of a man

He was glad to see the nurse from Millards Clinic

'Till he saw the burning eyes of No Man's Land

Molly Marlo was No Man's Land

Love could never grow in No Man's Land

Barney cried but she denied him

And he prayed and wrung his hands

Now his soul's walking

Through No Man's Land

• Artist:Tanya Tucker
• Album:Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) (1974)