Lonnie and Josie

Me and Lonnie thumbed down a Cadillac

Outside Laredo in the heat of the sun

The driver was tanned and he looked like a salesman

We were just children on the run

He talked real funny like we'd never heard

Must have been foreign I guess

And I felt like an actress in an old movie

As Lonnie and I drove west

We were saying goodbye to the ones left behind

Hello to the ones up ahead

Lonnie and me were just drumming our knees

While the radio D.J. said

Keep your eyes open for Lonnie and Josie

Sixteen and fourteen, playing hooky from school

Last seen they were walking the road by the courtroom

Downtown Laredo at a quarter past two

Our friend in the front seat turned around and smiled

Grinning and shaking his head

Asked us politely where we were going

Where the sand turns to sea on the coast, I said

We were crossing the border just out of Texas

Passed the last dusty abandoned old farm

With the AM playing the songs of Sinatra

And Lonnie sleeping in my arms