Written: White Rocks Dorm, NMSU, Las Cruces NM, 1965
The White Rocks dorm was a relic of World War II occupation of the campus by excess soldiers from Fort Bliss. The dorm fee was $70 for the fall semester of 1965 for Knees and Dwight Babcock, the Torques bass player, and it was worth every penny. The building was torn down the next semester. Knees wrote this on his bunk, looking out the window at the dust, imagining he was writing a song the Byrds might sing.
Well she don’t have much money
But what I want she gets me
When I say let me do something
She don’t say no she lets me
But you, what can you do?
Her eyes are so inviting
When she asks me how I feel
Her hands know what they’re doin
Her love she can’t conceal
But you, what can you do?
You didn’t sympathize
Or try to disguise your lies
She lets the world go by
And it’s no wonder why she’s mine.