--words and music by Michael Stanley
from "Just Another Night", 2008, LineLevel Music
You roll south outta Memphis Ninty-three miles to ride Cross the Tennessee line To the Misissippi side Must be something in the water Something in the air 'Cause they drive real fast, talk real slow Just how it is around there... Now down in Lee County Just off the Natchez Trace The moon sits high and the night hangs heavy Over the place And out there on the east side In a shotgun shack The ghosts all pass the bottle around And then they pass it right back... And here comes midnight Like a fast movin' train Gonna wash my soul In the Tupelo rain... Got Jesus on the mainline And a long black hearse You might get what you want Is that a blessing or a curse? Me I'm gonna try to ease my pain Gonna wash my sins away In the Tupelo rain...Tupelo rain... Now some men take the hard way And some they just take it slow And some never see the end of the road Till it's too late to know And there's a mansion on a hill With a king behind a door But it don't mean nothin' when the dream lies dyin' On a cold tile floor... And here comes midnight Like a fast movin' train Gonna wash my soul In the Tupelo rain... Got Jesus on the mainline And a long black hearse You might get what you want Is that a blessing or a curse? Gonna wash my sins away In the Tupelo rain... In the Tupelo rain...