Lyrics

CAPE GIRARDEAU / © 2024 Mark Hamby

Tail lights streaming south on 57
Pools of yellow light to mark the miles
Shapes and shadows swim along the fence line
Stuck on the same denials

Exit west on Lick Creek Road to Jonesboro
Wipers double timing in the rain
Rolling back the years on a county blacktop
Hardly a word worth sayin’

Then that tune came up about a mile out of Cape Girardeau
Set us thinking on our better days gone by
A little dose of that do-si-do
A little je ne sais quoi, I don’t know what the devil got into us
But we were back on the road.

Stopping off for coffee south of Sikeston
Hours to go before the light of day
Somewhere down a trail of summer wishes
We’d sort of lost our way

Then that tune came up about a mile out of Cape Girardeau…

Sharing a gentle glow,
Off the face of that radio
With the world passing by

Then that tune came up about a mile out of Cape Girardeau…