The North Won The War Again Last Night

C

C7

Bus station in Atlanta 6:40 in the evening

F

C

She was standing cold and all alone

E7

I ask where she was going but she had no way of knowing

D7

G7

Cause she was broke and long way from home

C

C7

Straight from New York City she was young thin and pretty

F

C

She belonged in a fashion magazine

F

I said stay with me till morning

C

F

I’ve got a bed to keep you warm in

C

G7

C

We call it southern hospitality

G7

F

C

Lying in the stillness there was no blue or gray

G7

F

C

G7

Only sweet surrender in the shadows where we la–y

F

G7

E7

C

She held me close and loved this southern boy just right

D7

G7

C

And the north won the war again last night

C7

Morning’s all around me my arms are all around her

F

C

She’s sleeping Lord and she looks so fine

E7

Between the shades of last night and this mornings daylight

D7

G7

We found love’s Mason Dixon line

C

C7

And in her arms I found that love isn’t north or south

F

C

It isn’t how you say the things you say

F

C

F

New York City or Atlanta Cleveland or Savanna

C

G7

C

She’s taken all the boundaries away

G7

F

C