She came in quiet as a thundercloud
Rolling low across the plain
Didn’t have to raise her voice none
Everybody knew her name

She had dust on her old blue denim
And fire under that black felt hat
Some men tried to stand against her
But they never stood long after that

She don’t run from hard times
She don’t bend for no one
She’s got a way of standing still
That makes the weak ones come undone

You can’t shake the ground she walks on
You can’t break the heart she owns
You can’t make a mountain move
By throwing little sticks and stones

You can’t drag the moon from heaven
You can’t stop the dawn from coming on
You can rattle every window in town
But you can’t shake the ground she walks on

She was raised on Bible verses
And a backroad kind of truth
Learned to dance with disappointment
When she lost too much too soon

She can smile like Sunday morning
She can stare like judgment day
She don’t waste her time on warning
When somebody’s in her way

She don’t need no rescue
She don’t cry to be heard
She can say more with silence
Than most men say with words

You can’t shake the ground she walks on
You can’t break the heart she owns
You can’t make a mountain move
By throwing little sticks and stones

You can’t drag the moon from heaven
You can’t stop the dawn from coming on
You can rattle every window in town
But you can’t shake the ground she walks on

There’s a bass line in the barroom
Like a train outside the door
And she moves right through that rhythm
Like she’s been here before

Every gambler keeps on watching
Every outlaw tips his hat
There ain’t a lie that can outrun her
There ain’t a fool can turn her back

Some women weather storms
Some women become one
She don’t ask who’s in her way
She just walks, and they’re gone

You can’t shake the ground she walks on
You can’t break the heart she owns
You can’t make a mountain move
By throwing little sticks and stones

You can’t drag the moon from heaven
You can’t stop the dawn from coming on
You can rattle every window in town
But you can’t shake the ground she walks on

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Writer: Flash/Songsmith