Drive-in Movies And Dashboard Lights Lyrics - From A Distance - Nanci Griffith

Sister had a crystal voice 

She played a Silvertone from Montgomery Ward 

Baez songs in Monroe hair 

She sure could turn the boys' heads to stare 

Swim wear saunter, tan and haunt them 

That's all she learned in school 

Books were for the other girls 

And the other girls were fools 

In Texas back in sixty-nine 

It was drive-in movies and dashboard lights 

Father waltzed her down the aisle 

'Cause college didn't suit her style 

The sad truth was that she could barely read 

But, if you'd told dear Father 

He wouldn't believe you 

The telephone rang it drove Mother insane 

From the hearts left on the shelf 

Sister's gone and she won't be home 

'Cause she didn't take care of herself 

In Texas back in sixty-nine 

It was drive-in movies and dashboard lights 

Where is she now? 

The backseat Queen of fraternity 

Where is she now? 

She is heavy of thigh and light on integrity 

Someone should've told her 

When beauty's all you offer 

Too soon the world discovers that your 

Beauty's gone 

(It's gone ) 

Mother can't you hear your daughter crying 

Father wake up her youth is dying 

Her kids are grown Husband's gone away 

It's a shame 'cause she had such a lovely face 

Can't you see she needed more 

Than, "Oh, what a pretty child"? 

You never taught her truth from lie 

All you told her was to smile 

In Texas back in sixty-nine 

It was drive-in movies and dashboard lights 

Where is she now? 

The backseat Queen of fraternity 

Where is she now? 

She is heavy of thigh and light on integrity 

Someone should've told her 

When beauty's all you offer 

Too soon the world discovers that your 

Beauty's gone 

(It's gone ) 

In Texas back in sixty-nine 

It was drive-in movies and dashboard lights