Well he met her in the navy, he was the hit of the class She was a cute lil thing, he liked the way she shook her glass And they ran out of Texas and he bought some land, yeah And they settled in a mobile-home out by the Taco-stand He was doin' things he didn't understand, there was no way to explain she was God's gift to man Well he got a promotion and he got themselves a colored TV Had the cable put in and they watched a round of "Jeopardy" And they sat out in the evening and they watched the sun go down And everything was good, they were livin' on the outside of town They were traveling by and they didn't understand she was God's gift to man Yeah baby, tell me don't it feel good That you know that We're livin' just like a young boy should ....yeah, yeah, yeah.... She went out to Houston where she was living in sin Well he begged her on his belly but nobody moved in She wound up in El Paso on the streets again It was hard to take it but sometimes you just can't win He was after lil lady that he didn't understand and he couldn't understand that she was God's gift to man Well, I've seen her on TV just a couple of nights ago She was was doin' a commercial, smilin'for some Aloe-soap But I knew inside her heart was black as coal There's no way to replace the amount of lovin' that lil girl stole Yeah then she got it coming but she won't understand that she was God's gift to man Well I've been doin' things that I don't understand, but she was God's gift to man