LISTEN TO THE RADIO
As recorded by Nanci Griffith on "Storms" (1989)

1. I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rain.
These Delta towns wear satin gowns in a high-beam frame.
Loretta Lynn guides my hand to the radio.
Where would I be in times like these without the songs Loretta wrote?

CHORUS: ['Cause] when you can't find a friend, you still got the radio.
[And] when you can't find a friend, you still got the radio.
The radio-o, listen to the radio.
The radio-o, listen to the radio. [repeat this line ad lib]
[It's the] radio-o-o.

2. I left a handsome two-steppin' good old boy in Tennessee.
Now he's sittin' on the sofa; he's lookin' for his supper, wonderin' what's become o' me.
I got a double-o-eighteen Martin guitar in the back seat of the car.
I am leaving Mississippi with the radio on. CHORUS

3. There's a moon across the border in the Louisiana sky.
I smell the Pontchartrain; I hear "Silver Wings", and then away Merle Haggard flies.
That good old boy will find a band o' gold on the stereo.
Hey, then my mama's gonna call, say, "Where's she gone?" He'll say, "Down the road with the radio on." CHORUS