FASTEST GROWING HEARTACHE IN THE WEST
(Larry Kingston / Frank Dycus)


Ringo Starr - 1970



I brought her here from Arkansas, a simple country girl
To try a California way of life
But it didn't take her long to learn the ways of the modern world
Now she's California's fastest moving wife

She's workin' on it overtime, but soon she'll finish me
And the world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles
Of all the things she's ever done, she's makin' this her best
I got the fastest growin' heartache in the West

(Instrumental Break)

Till we came here, no man had ever touched her heart but me
She'd never tasted any lips but mine
But I know now that men have seen what only I should see
Since her lips have tasted California wine

She's workin' on it overtime, but soon she'll finish me
And the world's saddest man will live here in Los Angeles
Of all the things she's ever done she's makin' this her best
I got the fastest growin' heartache in the west






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - January 2012)