Lyrics

The Night Before Tupelo

Maggie won't you kick off your shoes
You don't have to drive to Tupelo tonight
Ain't nothing there but the ghost of a boy left long ago
Maggie won't you kick off your shoes


Maggie won't you lose that dress
Just pick up the phone and tell him you ain't coming home
Never mind the vows that we never kept anyhow
Maggie won't you lose that dress

Maggie won't you come on over here
we'll open up this fifth of gin, forgive ourselves for all our sins,
make up for all the wasted years
Maggie won't you come on over here


Maggie leave me with that twisted smile
Only God knows what it means
but for all the broken hearted dreams
for everything left unredeemed
for all the lonely in-betweens
Maggie leave me with that twisted smile