I got in town tonight,
wasn't feeling right
Stopped in a lonely bar for a drink or two
The lights were turned down low,
the whiskey started to flow
Then I saw a girl lookin' lonely too
She was a wild, barren wo man
Looked just like a girl I used to know
A girl I left in Tennessee
with our daughter Mary Lee
And on a night like this, I miss them so
Well, I drank the whiskey down
Had moved my mind around
The jukebox played a song
from way back home
She came over from her stew
Sat down next to this old fool
She said, babe,
there ain't no cause to drink alone
She was a wild baroone woman
Looked just like a girl I used to know
A girl I left in Tennessee
with our daughter Mary Lee
And on a night like this I
miss them so
She put her hand on mine,
Lord, it felt so fine
I'd forgotten just how warm
a hand could be
God knows I needed more,
but I'd felt that hand before
Somehow it all began to seem unreal
As she sat there by my side,
the man inside me cried
Through my tears, I saw her memory
And when she said her name
I hung my head in shame
She said, everybody calls me Mary Lee
She was a wild, barren woman
Looked just like a girl I used to know
A girl that lived in Tennessee
with her daughter Mary Lee
Not a night like this I miss them so
She was a wild barroom woman
Looked just like a girl I used to know
A girl I left in Tennessee
with her daughter Mary Lee
And on a night like this, I miss them so