i got a cool head doin alright but i been up here so long i was starving for some hot spells summer lights shinin on your back roads tennessee somebody hit me hard right in my own backyard somebody put a hope lock on my heart runnin down your back roads tennessee oh you got the banjos and they play real slow not to me not to me i never heard such rock and roll as on your back roads tennessee now i know you re not to blame but you know that you should have told me that i would never be the same after riding down your back roads tennessee  somebody held me tight somebody tried to fight somebody raced out in the night runnin down your back roads tennessee oh you kissed the soul of a rebel in a yankee girl you got to me i heard you callin round the world from your back roads tennessee i saw somebody standin in a field with a crutch behind his rich southern daddy with a midas touch they said be outta here by sundown they said good luck you might say i was the stranger who knew too much somebody took a hope lock from my heart and threw it down your back roads tennessee oh you feel the north wind blow that s only me i want to hear some rock and roll on your back roads tennessee i m not the bad city girl come down to rape you i m not the hometown queen who wants to save you i heard you callin to my soul from your back roads tennessee