Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight (Live)

[Verse 1]

Oh Mary took to running with a traveling man

Left her momma crying with her head in her hands

Such a sad case, so brokenhearted

She say, "Momma, got to go, got to get out of here

Got to get out of town, tired of hanging around

I got to roll on between the ditches"

It's just an ordinary story about the way things go

Around and around, nobody knows

But the highway goes on forever

Oh, that old highway goes on forever

[Verse 2]

Lord, she never would've done it if she hadn't got drunk

Hadn't started running with a traveling man

If she hadn't started taking those crazy chances

She said, "Daughter, let me tell you 'bout the traveling kind

Everywhere they go such a very short time

He'll be long gone before you know it

Oh, he'll be long gone before you know it"

[Chorus]

She say, "Never have I known it when it felt so good

Never have I knew it when I knew I could

Never have I done it when it looked so right

Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight"

[Verse 3]

This is down in the swampland where anything goes

It's alligator bait and the bars don't close

It's the real thing down in Louisiana

Did you ever see a Cajun when he really got mad?

When he really got trouble like a daughter gone bad

It gets real hot down in Louisiana

The stranger better move it or he's going to get killed

He's going to have to get it or a shotgun will

It ain't no time for lengthy speeches

Lord, it ain't no time for lengthy speeches

[Chorus]

She say, "Never have I known it when it felt so good

Never ever knew it when I knew I could

Never have I done it when it looked so right

Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight"

She say, "Never have I known it when it felt so good

Never ever knew it when I knew I could

Never have I done it when it looked so right

Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight

Leaving Louisiana in the broad daylight"

[Outro]

It's just an ordinary story about the way things go

Around and around nobody knows

But the highway goes on forever

There ain't no way to stop the water