Capo 4

Intro – G – C – Em7 – D

Verse

She was leaning long legged
‘neath a bottle cap sign
Of a country store with a coke and a smile
the coolest place to linger
on an Arkansas day
when she saw him passing by
He said “I’ll take you back to Texas”
Said “my name is Ray”
where the stars are bigger than the Hit Parade
And she stopped dreamin’ her dream
and she started dreamin’ his
Traded in her childhood

Chorus

She wore flowered dresses for him
Rolled her hair, scrubbed her freckled skin
On the chance that they were goin’ out tonight
Catch a sh[G/F#]ow, maybe grab a bite
and she looked real nice, She looked real nice

Verse

Sometimes I think about my daddy

and his old spice grin,

Cleaned pressed shirts, and a farmers tan

She never asked him questions

So he never told her lies

but I heard my mama cry some

And I was sitting in the hallway on the night he left

huggin my knees, holding my breath

I never knew why but he was damn sure gone

thought it was maybe my fault

Chorus

Verse

Now the evening is just starting to chill a bit

with the fireflies in flight over the trees and it

Brings to mind the glider where she used to sit

And count the headlights on the highway

So I think of where you’re goin’

Where you are tonight

What you might have seen,

since I last saw those eyes.

I know that I can’t win, If I do not play

But this whole thing scares me

Chorus

and she looked real nice, She looked real nice