Just a little box all covered
Chinese red man made a breast
that he gave her long ago
Like the red dirt Oklahoma heals
in the springtime flowering trees
She kept with all the love they shared
She got it from her captain
when he sailed around the home
Bringing gifts from China
There was fancy silks and
from the places he had gone
She kept them all until she died
but this was her favorite one
A little box all covered with blossoms
Chinese red iron made of brass
that he gave her long ago
Like the red dirt Oklahoma hills
and the springtime plowing trees
She kept with all the love they share
She kept it on her dresser,
filled with gold and silver rings,
necklaces of turquoise and beads
I filled her heart with the mystery
and the magic of the day.
He gave it to her for her own
Ten years they stayed together
One day while she waited there
And no one knows how she called his name
to the silent rocks and stones
Or how she sat and held that little box
so she would not feel alone
The treasures of her life
were the things she left behind
And they buried her without them
where the prairie grasses grow
In China or a woman's heart,
there's places no one knows
Was a little box all covered
The Chinese ready, it was made of brass,
he gave it to a llama doll
And they buried her without it
where the prairie grasses grow
In China or a woman's heart
There's places no one knows
