Magnolia
Charlie Robison

Beginning: G-D-G-D-G-A-D

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I drove all day to North Mississippi
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I drove all night to the place I call home
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I hope that Johnny’s still waitin’ there for me
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To take me beside him and call me his own

Chorus:
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But it’s too late now
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It’s too late now
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The smell of magnolias 
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Still sweet in my mouth
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And I know it’s too late now

Johnny got mean when he started drinkin’ 
And it wasn’t nobody’s fault when he cried
So I left one mornin’ from North Mississippi
Cause I couldn’t stand to tell mama I lied

Chorus

Johnny took no time to ask me to marry
And I said I would though I knew it was wrong
They played Hank Williams in North Mississippi
And I played the same girl I had all along

Chorus

Early one mornin’ in North Mississippi
I swore that I could hear somebody cry
But it wasn’t my Johnny from North Mississippi
All dressed up in orange on the day that I died

Chorus:
But it’s too late now
It’s too late now
The smell of magnolias
Now gone from my mouth
And I know it’s too late now