acoustic blues folk texas
Lyrics
Magnolia Walk (2000)
It was a cool autumn night and I was dressed to the nines
With a felt hat to cover the deepening lines
That were carved in the long dark night of my soul
As a young man, now just a colorful hole where the heart was
Ah, but what a story
With a scarlet dress and an O'Hara tongue
The smell of that woman filled my lungs
With a want I hadn't known for a hundred years
And the sound of her voice, well, it pierced my ears like a pirate
Ah, thar she blows
She noticed my gaze and she shot me a smile
Like an arrow right into this fumblin' child
Of a man with a memory elephantine
And at just the wrong moment she began to remind me of you
How do you do that?
So I tipped her my seven and a quarter and said
"Sweet Sugar Magnolia, I fear I have lead you astray
Down a path long since overgrown
With the beautiful thorns of the roses I have known, I am sorry
Please don't throw me in that briar patch again"
She grinned at me knowingly, nodded and said
"Sir, I see though I cannot pretend to have read
In your palm or your heart or the leaves of your tea
That the story of you is the story of me
Shall we walk"
And we did, and we did, and we did