Rome Georgia Picked peaches off the trees Climbed the water tower in Paris Tennessee Drank Muscadine wine She gave me a chance and I made her mine Says she'll never fly away and she's my girl It's 'cause I showed her 'round a country boy's world She was

Dancing slowly in an empty room Can the lonely take the place of you I sing myself a quiet lullaby Let you go and let the lonely in To take my heart again I'm a ghost of a girl That I want to be most I'm the shell of a girl That I used to know well

She's my dream girl So I'll wait for her, to come She won't break my heart Because you know, she'll be From Australia She is so, beautiful Everybody knows it's true You never listen to me I know I'm better off alone