Magnolia

I drove all day to North Mississippi

I drove all night to the place I call home

I hope that Johnny’s still waitin’ there for me

To take me beside him and call me his own

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But it’s too late now

It’s too late now

The smell of magnolias

Still sweet in my mouth

And I know it’s too late now

Johnny got mean when he started drinkin’

And it wasn’t nobody’s fault when he cried

So I left one mornin’ from North Mississippi

Cause I couldn’t stand to tell mama I lied

Chorus

Johnny took no time to ask me to marry

And I said I would though I knew it was wrong

They played Hank Williams in North Mississippi

And I played the same girl I had all along

Chorus

Early one mornin’ in North Mississippi

I swore that I could hear somebody cry

But it wasn’t my Johnny from North Mississippi

All dressed up in orange on the day that I died

Chorus:

But it’s too late now

It’s too late now

The smell of magnolias

Now gone from my mouth

And I know it’s too late now