All the Way To Memphis

I fell over backwards when I got the news

She was a friend of many years

I pulled over off a gravel road somewhere

I’m in a mood to shed my blues, I’m in a mood

‘Cause I left Tallahassee in the rain

And I drove all the night through Georgia

And I reached Tennessee before sunrise

And I cried all the way to Memphis

Some fingerprints were lifted from her bedside tray

She never went to work that day

Her killer was a man, she met in acting class

Who cast her in his foul play, his foul play

‘Cause I left Tallahassee in the rain

And I drove all the night through Georgia

And I reached Tennessee before sunrise

And I cried all the way to Memphis

An apple from the orchard falls onto the ground

And if there are no worms around

The sun will take and bake into a rotting core

Until the seeds are there no more, are there no more

‘Cause I left Tallahassee in the rain

And I drove all the night through Georgia

And I reached Tennessee before sunrise

And I cried all the way to Memphis