Tennessee

I got a cool head doin' alright
 But I been up here so long I was starving
 For some hot spells, summer lights
 Shinin' on your back roads
 Tennessee
 Somebody hit me hard
 Right in my own backyard
 Somebody put a hope lock on my heart
 Runnin' down your back roads
 Tennessee
 Oh you got the banjos
 And they play real slow
 Not to me, not to me
 I never heard such rock and roll
 As on your back roads
 Tennessee
 Now I know you're not to blame
 But you know that you should have
 told me
 That I would never be the same
 After riding down your back roads
 Tennessee
 Somebody held me tight
 Somebody tried to fight
 Somebody raced out in the night
 Runnin' down your back roads
 Tennessee
 Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel
 In a Yankee girl
 You got to me
 I heard you callin' 'round the world
 From your back roads
 Tennessee
 I saw somebody standin'
 In a field with a crutch
 Behind his rich southern daddy
 With a Midas touch
 They said be outta here by sundown
 They said good luck
 You might say I was the stranger
 Who knew too much
 Somebody took a hope lock from my heart
 And threw it down your back roads
 Tennessee
 Oh you feel the north wind blow
 That's only me
 I want to hear some rock and roll
 On your back roads
 Tennessee
 I'm not the bad city girl
 Come down to rape you
 I'm not the hometown queen
 Who wants to save you
 I heard you callin' to my soul
 From your back roads
 Tennessee