Tennessee Lyrics - Fat City - Shawn Colvin

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 

Playin' 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 

There aren't any 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 

Oh, 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