Key: C
Introduction:
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
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