But I been up here so long I was starving
For some hot spells, summer lights
 Shinin' on your back roads
 Tennessee

 Somebody hit me hard
Right in my own backyard
Somebody put a hope lock on my heart
Runnin' down your back roads
 Tennessee

 Oh you got the banjos
 And they play real slow
 Not to me, not to me
 I never heard such rock and roll
 As on your back roads
 Tennessee

 Now I know you're not to blame
But you know that you should have
 told me
That I would never be the same
After riding down your back roads
 Tennessee

Somebody held me tight
 Somebody tried to fight
 Somebody raced out in the night
Runnin' down your back roads
 Tennessee

 Oh you kissed the soul of a rebel
 In a Yankee girl
You got to me
I heard you callin' 'round the world
 From your back roads
 Tennessee

I saw somebody standin'
 In a field with a crutch
Behind his rich southern daddy
With a Midas touch
They said be outta here by sundown
They said good luck
 You might say I was the stranger
 Who knew too much

 Somebody took a hope lock from my heart
And threw it down your back roads
 Tennessee

 Oh you feel the north wind blow
That's only me
 I want to hear some rock and roll
On your back roads
 Tennessee

 I'm not the bad city girl
Come down to rape you
 I'm not the hometown queen
 Who wants to save you
 I heard you callin' to my soul
 From your back roads
 Tennessee