Forty-Nine Keep On Talkin' - Tim O'Brien

I left the cold and rain behind, I drove out west to Memphis

South across the Mississippi line, I rolled my window down

Big river runnin' on my right, turtles on the banks a walkin'

Don’t know how far I’m gonna get tonight, forty-nine keep on talkin'

Some roads are made for drivin' fast, and some roads are made for walkin'

Some roads are made to ease my mind, forty-nine keep on talkin'

Now me and her we called it love, what the hell did it matter

But when the pushin' came to shove, I didn’t have much to say

Guess I’m better off on my own, no she won’t hear me knockin'

This west bound lane gonna be my home, forty-nine keep on talkin'

Some roads are made for drivin' fast, some roads are made for walkin'

Some roads are made to ease my mind, forty-nine keep on talkin'

See the black girl with long blonde hair, up on top of the levee

What’s she thinkin' 'bout standin there, what does she see today

A dusty haze in the settin' sun, the crows on the wires watchin'

I let two miles turn into twenty-one, forty-nine keep on talkin'

Some roads are made for drivin' fast, some roads are made for walkin'

Some roads are made to ease my mind, forty-nine keep on talkin'

Some roads are made for drivin' fast, some roads are made for walkin'

It might be the road to ease my mind, forty-nine keep on talkin'