Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight
Rodney Crowell, Donivan Cowart, 1979· Songs Well-Known in America · p.194
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Mary took to running with a traveling man
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Left her momma crying with her head in her hands
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Such a sad case, so broken hearted
She say, momma, I got to go, gotta get outta here
I gotta get out of town, I'm tired of hanging around
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I gotta roll on between the ditches
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It's just an ordinary story 'bout the way things go
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'Round and around nobody knows but the highway
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Goes on forever, that old highway rolls on forever.
Lord, she never would've done it if she hadn't got drunk
If she hadn't started running with a traveling man
If she hadn't started taking those crazy chances
She said, daughter, let me tell you 'bout the traveling kind
Everywhere he's going such a very short time
He'll be long gone before you know it
He'll be long gone before you know it.
Chorus:
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She said, never have I known it when it felt so good
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Never have I knew it when I knew I could
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Never have I done it when it looked so right
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Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight.
This is down in the swampland, anything goes
It's alligator bait and the bars don't close.
It's the real thing down in Louisiana.
Did you ever see a Cajun when he really gets mad,
When he’s really got trouble like a daughter gone bad
It gets real hot down in Louisiana.
The stranger better move it or he's gonna get killed
He's gonna have to get it or a shotgun will.
It ain't no time for lengthy speeches
There ain't no time for lengthy speeches. (Chorus)
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It's just an ordinary story 'bout the way things go
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'Round and around nobody knows but the highway
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Goes on forever, that old highway rolls on forever.