Midwest Girl

In the Bible I have pressed a photograph of her and on its back the words she wrote said she'd always remember me on a Greyhound bus I rode down roads that endless seemed through a countryside that never changed and every small town there could be every town had a school or it had a church where we would stop for the night and another show to do endless crowds of people full the halls were always full for there was nothing else to do on a Midwest small-town night on the stage I would sing song so carefully learned trying hard passion to show so my words weren't empty things after the show the people would always want to meet me tell me how much they enjoyed the show and how they'd remember me and in a town there was a girl who in the crowd I did see and her eyes did see me and I knew together we be we did meet and we did talk and went out together to eat a small town diner where we ate I don't remember what and that night I went to her house and the night there did spend and in the morning she did give her photograph to me and the bus it did wait my bags to be loaded in and to say goodbye to her and onto the bus climb out the window I saw her wave as the bus pulled away and we drove down the road and I left her behind so many years has it been so many shows I've done so many people have I met and too many have left behind looking at her photograph and wondering if still she does remember that we met and once together were