Waitress In Tennessee

Lyrics & Music by Thorsten Jakobsson thorstenj@hotmail.com, Oct 14, 2012

I was playing Honky Tonk in a Nashville bar

I lived on beer and my tip-jar

Next by the counter, I saw her standing there

Dark hair, brown eyes, and I pulled up a chair

In a little while, a tap on my shoulder

Hi there honey, are you alright, I just wanted to see

When you are travelling and your heart gets a little colder

all you need is a few kind words from a girl in Tennessee

 

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Just playing guitar and feel a gentle hand

On my shoulder, her brown eyes look at me

Never be a star, I don’t ask for much

but I always love the girl from Tennessee

late at night I’m standing outside on the street

waitress opens the door she looks at me so sweet

it took just a moment, then she walked by

I’m standing by myself, look at the sky

 

don’t know if she’s married, if she has five kids

all I know, it feels so warm when she looks at me

when you’re alone and fortune collects its bits

at least you can think about the girl in Tennessee

 

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it was many years, that night in Tennessee

I wonder if she’s happy and if she still remembers me

but, if life had turned in other ways

I could have spent my life with a girl from Tennessee

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