West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown - Todd Snider

West Nashville Grand Ballroom Gown - Todd Snider/Jimmy Buffet
Written by：Jimmy Buffet/Eric McConnell/Todd Snider
Standin' on side of the highway 4 exit
A lady in tie dye a bag by her side
Not seeing really lookin' like anything special
Saw Tennessee tags and she waved for a ride
Sat right beside me as the meter hit sixty
Splainin' her travels and her family background
When she got through I could not help but thinkin'
She's a long way from a West Nashville grand ballroom
Gown
She's a long way from a West Nashville grand ballroom
Gown
Father had money and her mother had love
Channelled entirely to her dear sister dove
Twenty two years in society's plan
Was cancelled in the swing of her dear mother's hand
Six hours later we hit cincinnati
Yawnin' she woke up and then asked where we were
When she found out she said I must be goin'
In this close to Nashville was too close for her
So I stopped by the roadside and I gave her
Five dollars
She took it then kissed me and gave me a
Note
She told me just to read it then mail it
In nashville
On old loose leaf paper to her mother she wrote
She said mama I'm fine if you happen to wonder
I don't have much money but I still get around
I haven't made church in near thirty six sundays
So f**k all those West Nashville grand ballroom gowns
Yes she's a long way from a west nashville grand
Ballroom gown