Love In A Memory Lyrics - Nanci Griffith

She sleeps alone in the warm nights of Memphis 

Where the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen sky 

She sings like the waves in the cool Mississippi 

That brought her from St. Paul in '75 

And men come to court her with roses and sweet wine 

Where hands cross the ivories from six until nine 

She sings away sorrows each night when she leaves him 

She goes home alone, she's not the marrying kind 

And love is a memory that she'll always hold 

'Cause love in a memory never grows old 

Why she did leave him, well nobody knows 

And love in a memory, never grows old 

And he works the toll booth on the New Jersey turnpike 

The ring on his finger grows cold to the bone 

His sons were young dreamers who cheat on their own wives 

He still dreams of St. Paul when he's cheating alone