COUNTRY GIRL
(Jeannie C. Riley)


Jeannie C. Riley - 1970


New York is a long way from Texas
Vegas is a long way from Abilene
I spend lots of my time flyin' out to L.A.
And if you never been there, you don't know 
How lonesome big towns can be

Oh, what I'd give to be a country girl again
To be with my people, my man and my kids
To live in a house 'bout a mile down the road from Mama
Oh, Lord, what I'd give to be a country girl again

To go walkin' down a country road at sunset
And see colours you can almost touch right overhead
To hear the gentle breeze of peace blowin' through the treetops
No, out in the country there ain't no talk that God is dead

Oh, what I'd give to be a country girl again
To be with my people, my man and my kids
To live in a house 'bout a mile down the road from Mama
Oh, Lord, what I'd give to be a country girl again
Oh, what I'd give to be a country girl again






(Transcribed by Mel Priddle - November 2015)