F# F#7
Bus station in Atlanta 6:40 in the evening
B F#
She was standing cold and all alone
A#7
I ask where she was going but she had no way of knowing
G#7 C#7
Cause she was broke and long way from home
F# F#7
Straight from New York City she was young thin and pretty
B F#
She belonged in a fashion magazine
B
I said stay with me till morning
F# B
I've got a bed to keep you warm in
F# C#7 F#
We call it southern hospitality
C#7 B F#
Lying in the stillness there was no blue or gray
C#7 B F# C#7
Only sweet surrender in the shadows where we la--y
B C#7 A#7 F#
She held me close and loved this southern boy just right
G#7 C#7 F#
And the north won the war again last night
F#7
Morning's all around me my arms are all around her
B F#
She's sleeping Lord and she looks so fine
A#7
Between the shades of last night and this mornings daylight
G#7 C#7
We found love's Mason Dixon line
F# F#7
And in her arms I found that love isn't north or south
B F#
It isn't how you say the things you say
B F# B
New York City or Atlanta Cleveland or Savanna
F# C#7 F#
She's taken all the boundaries away
C#7 B F#
Lying in the stillness there was no blue or gray
C#7 B F# C#7
Only sweet surrender in the shadows where we la--y
B C#7 A#7 F#
She held me close and loved this southern boy just right
G#7 C#7 F#
And the north won the war again last night