Jackson Girl

from Prayer Street Blues by Jeremy Joyce

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lyrics

That Mississippi river, she runs fast and she's cold
She goes to the place my heart wants to go
Somewhere out of Memphis they turn out all the lights
I've still got one hundred fifty miles to drive

When I get down to Jackson, when I get around Jackson way
Some folks gonna look at me kind of strange
I don't mind standing out in her part of the world
I'm just trying to find my Jackson girl

[CHORUS]
She doesn't mind the East Coast, she doesn't mind the West
But with a Mississippi heart she loves her home the best
She goes to Church on Sunday, does as she should
She's so sweet she kinda makes me feel no good
My Jackson Girl

I met her in Saint Louis and I wished that she was mine
She had the kind of beauty that makes a grown man cry
Makes a young boy jump and shout, makes a poet sing
Makes the winter wish he could change himself to spring

We danced in the bar, out into the summer night
I had an ‘87 Dodge, we took a real long drive
She stayed with me a while but I really should have known
Her big ole Jackson heart was pulling her back home

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from Prayer Street Blues, released December 31, 2015

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Jeremy Joyce New Orleans, Louisiana

New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.