From the recording Spanish Colored Houses
From the album - Spanish Colored Houses by Larry Kendrick 2024
Lyrics
She traveled north to Newport a year ago last May
Left behind this southern boy for bright lights on the bay
But somewhere south of Boston she's strumming her guitar
Feeling lost and lonesome hanging out with the stars
Me I'm watching cotton blowing in the wind
Riding high on dump trucks down where the south begins
I look across the river our old school's in sight
Trying to remember how she felt prom night
It's funny how her smile rolls through my mind
Like billboards on the highway on the Dixie line
Seems the more things change they stay the same
She's chasing new dreams and I put out old flames
And you can still hear Elvis on a summer breeze
Riding with the top down 'round Memphis Tennessee
Tonight I'm seeing heaven in a million stars
Wondering where that southern girl is playing her guitar
And every day she prays for strength to head home
But every night she surrenders and plays them one more song
Seems the more things change they stay the same
She's chasing new dreams and I still feel old pain
And you can still hear Elvis on a summer breeze
Riding with the top down 'round Memphis Tennessee
It's funny how her smile rolls through my mind
Like billboards on the highway on the Dixie line