Lights Out In Tupelo Lyrics - Singles - Dan May

LIGHTS OUT IN TUPELO 

2005 Dan May and Steve Patti 

VERSE 1 

Crossing Mississippi 

Tossing my self-pity 

Lost and found this life again 

Did hard time in Jackson 

Ten long years in passing 

Making me a better man 

But here they only see 

What I used to be 

CHORUS 

Lights out in Tupelo 

Packed up away I go 

Ive taken more than I can stand 

Well drive down through Birmingham 

South to Montgomery, man 

Folks there, they call it Alabam 

I call it the Promised Land 

VERSE 2 

This country sure looks pretty 

Far outside the city 

So much like from where I came 

Where they know my record 

Know my past is checkered 

Some things never seem to change 

I dont care anyhow 

It wont matter now 

CHORUS 

Lights out in Tupelo 

Packed up away I go 

Ive taken more than I can stand 

Well drive down through Birmingham 

South to Montgomery, man 

Folks there, they call it Alabam 

I call it the Promised Land 

BRIDGE 

Where the catfish run 

In the morning sun 

And the songbirds all call out to me 

Youre free 

But here, theyll never see 

The man that I could be 

CHORUS 

Lights out in Tupelo 

Packed up away I go 

Ive taken more than I can stand 

Well drive down through Birmingham 

South to Montgomery, man 

Folks there, they call it Alabam 

I call it the Promised Land