Love In A Memory - Nanci Griffith

She sleeps alone in the warm nights of Memphis

Where the Peabody Hotel meets the velveteen sky

She sings like the waves in the cool Mississippi

That brought her from St. Paul in '75

And men come to court her with roses and sweet wine

Where hands cross the ivories from six until nine

She sings away sorrow each night when she leaves him

She goes home alone

She’s not the marrying kind

Love is a memory that she’ll always hold

Cuz love in a memory never grows old

Why she did leave him, well nobody knows

Love in a memory never grows old

Now he works the toll booth on the New Jersey Turnpike

The ring on his finger grows cold to the bone

His sons were all dreamers who cheat on their own wives

He still dreams of St. Paul when he’s cheating alone

Love is a memory that he’ll always hold

Cause love in a memory never grows old

Why she did leave him, well, nobody knows

Cuz love in a memory never grows old