When Rita Leaves - Vance Lane

Written by：Nicholson,Gary/Mcclinton,Delbert

She left a lipstick letter on the mirror shattered on the bathroom floor

All I could put back together was never see me no more

Took all her clothes

But one red dress the one she knows I like the best

All I could do was clean up the mess and wonder where she'd gone

I had a sky blue rag top mustang a 1964

She drove it off into the night till it just wouldn't go no more

She caught a ride on into town bought some gas and laid the top down

Then she burned that pony to the ground on the desert in new mexico

When rita leaves rita's gone

She gave me every chance a man could want

I've never known a love so strong

Or so crazy when she's been done wrong

When rita leaves rita's gone

I put a call into her mamasita back in el paso

She said she got the story from rita on her way to mexico

Her mama knew I was takin' it hard said she was sorry about my car

She said you're lucky all she broke was your heart

You better just let her go

When rita leaves rita's gone

She gave me every chance a man could want

I've never known a love so strong

Or so crazy when she's been done wrong

When rita leaves rita's gone

She never gave me a chance to explain

Well I guess it doesn't much matter now anyway

When rita leaves rita's gone

When rita leaves rita's gone