| Well I met him in the navy | 
| He was the head of the class | 
| She was a cute little thing | 
| He liked the way she shook her glass | 
| And they went off to texas | 
| And they bought some land yeah | 
| And they settled in a hobo | 
| Home by a taco stand | 
| He was doin' things he didn’t understand | 
| There was no way to exlain it She was god’s gift to man | 
| Well he got a promotion | 
| And he bought himself a color 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 they did | 
| They were livin' on the outside of town | 
| Well the time went by That he didn’t understand | 
| She was god’s gift to man | 
| Yeah baby tell me, tell me real good | 
| Don’t you know that we’re livin' just like a young boy should? | 
| Well she went off to houston | 
| Where she was livin' in sin | 
| Well he built an office building | 
| 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 | 
| It was after a little way | 
| That he didn’t understand | 
| And couldn’t understand that | 
| She was god’s gift to man | 
| Well I seen her on tv just a couple of nights ago | 
| She was a doin' a commercial | 
| Smilin' with some ivory soap | 
| Well I knew inside her heart was black as coal | 
| There ain’t no way to replace the amount of lovin' that little girl stole | 
| Yeah one day she got it comin' | 
| And she won’t understand her niche | 
| She’s god’s gift to man | 
| Yeah I’ve been doin' things that I don’t understand | 
| Yeah she’s god’s gift to man | 
| Yeah, yeah, yeah | 
| Alright, alright, alright |