Drive in Movies and Dashboard Lights Lyrics

Drive in Movies and Dashboard Lights
Nanci Griffith

Sister had a crystal voice
She played a Silvertone from Montgomery Ward
Baez songs in Monroe hair
She sure could turn the boys' jeads to stare
Swin wear saunter tan and haunt them
That's all she learned in school
Books were for the other girls
And the other girls were fools
In Texas back in sixty-nine
It was the drive-in movies and dashboard lights

Father waltzed her down the aisle
'Cuz college didn't suit her style
The sad truth was that she could barely read
But if you'd told dear father
He would't believe you
The telephone rang...it drove mother insane
From the hearts left on the shelf
Sister's gone and she won't be home
"cuz she didn't take care of herself
In Texas back in sixty-nine
It was the drive-in movies and dashboard lights

Chorus

	Where is she now
	The backseat queen of fraternity
	Were is she now
	She is heavy of thigh and light on integrity
	Someone should've told her
	When beauty's all you offer
	Too soon the world discovers that your
	Beauty's gone (It's gone...)
	
Mother can't you hear your daughter crying
Father wake up her youth is dying
Her kids are grown...husband's gone away
It's a shame 'cuz she had such a lovely face
Can't you see she needed more
Than "Oh, what a pretty child."
You never taught her truth from lie
All you told her was to smile
In Texas back in sixty-nine
It was the drive-in movies and dashboard lights

Repeat Chorus