Greener Than The Grass We Laid On

He painted quite a picture for the girls in my home town

And I was no exception to the rule

Singing all them songs about the places that he´d been

Made a body feel just like a fool

My pride was like a paper bag that once had held the wine

Thrown with no caution to the wind

He left me like the empty bottle lying on the ground

Swearing he would pick me up again

And I was greener than the grass we laid on

Underneath that Alabama sun

I guess I should have known

That old highway was his home

Do-do-do-do-do-do do-do-do

He said that I was prettier than Paris in the rain

Lord he filled me full of gypsy lies

Swearing that he’d come back to fetch me in the spring

Too ashamed to look me in the eye

Well I felt about as simple as the cotton dress I’d torn

Sneaking in the house at 3 a.m.

Momma liked to question me to death and I was sure

Her intuition told her where I’d been

And I was greener than the grass we laid on

Underneath that Alabama sun

I guess I should have known

That old highway was his home

Do-do-do-do-do-do do-do-do