Sunset streams
across the silver screen
Takes the cowboy down Texas seems a long,
way from this run -down mining town
England's hope and glory
has hit that lonesome trail
An d drugstore dreams of limousines
Marlboro men and Levi jeans
Steel guitars and rhinestone queens
They never let me down
And I dreamed I saw America
From a two -bit border town
Thought I'd get across the border
See what
I could see
Put a little order
between the lone star state and me
She was standing by the freeway
And I was short in company
She was a girl in Texas
with a woman in Tennessee
My pick -up ain't no limousine
But there's room enough for two
She stepped in, down by my side,
the state line came in view
She said she didn't mind to travel,
said that is just fine by me
She was a girl in Texas,
but a woman in Tennessee
We found a little barroom
With a polka -play
ing band
We took to trading smiles,
an d we took to holding hand s
And we danced, we danced into the morning
Changed our history
She was a girl in Texas,
but a woman in Tennessee
And I dreamed I saw America
From a two -wheeled, one -horsed
run -down northern mining town