Candy Apple Red

Candy Apple Red - Don Kirschner

He came speeding through the town

Each day at sundown

And his car was painted candy apple red

He was coming there to see the sheriff's daughter

And the sheriff didn't know it so they said

Time and time again the sheriff tried to catch him

But he always speeded up and got away

That old County jail stood patiently awaiting

And the sheriff vowed he'd put him there some day

Well there goes candy apple red

That's what the people said

If he doesn't slow it down a bit

He's gonna end up dead

And the sheriff's daughter said

She'd rather end up dead

Than to live without her candy apple red

So the sheriff built a barricade to catch him

And he sat there at the limits of the town

But the sheriff's daughter had already met him

And had married him before the sun went down

When the sheriff saw him comin' down the highway

He saw they couldn't stop and quickly caught his breath

As they crashed the barricade the car exploded

And the boy and girl went to a flaming death

Well there goes candy apple red

That's what the people said

He didn't slow it down it all

And now he lies there dead

All the sheriff's bowed his head

His daughter lay there dead

Cradled in the arms of candy apple red