Patti Lynn Clark Barnett

Old Greyhound

Digital Music File

Somewhere in sunny Tennessee
From my front row window seat
I saw a picture that's stayed with me for fifteen years
A boy and girl about to be forever parted I could see
Saying last good byes outside that old Greyhound

He took her pretty face in his hands
And ran his fingers through her hair
And then held her close
When her big blue eyes filled up with tears
He brushed the tears from her sun burned cheek
With much more feeling than words can speak
Then I heard him say, "Don't go away on this old Greyhound"

Chorus:

Oh it was very plain his heart was breaking
Anybody could see her's was breaking too
I had to ask myself, 'When that kind of love was found
Why would she leave him on that old Greyhound?'

When that old driver finally came
And stepped up to his seat again
She had to say her final farewells and climb aboard
He walked away to his pick-up truck
Turned and gave one last long look
That seemed to say, 'I know we'll never meet again'

(Repeat chorus)

I saw that same girl yesterday
In a station in old L.A.
And I asked her if she'd ever been in Tennessee
Oh, she said, "Fifteen years ago
A brown-eyed boy that I loved so
Never made it home on the day I left
On an old Greyhound."

When she was through my heart was breaking
But when I saw who she was waiting for I knew
I'd found the answer to my question long ago
Why she had left him on an old Greyhound
There stood a teen-age answer to my question
Now I knew why she had left him on an old Greyhound