Mississippi King

MISSISSIPPI KING - Written by Carroll Bryant 

Mississippi man, and I'm lonely

Mississippi man, and I need someone to hold me 

Tonight 

If you can

Mississippi man

Mississippi king 

Born dirt poor and I lost my brother Jesse

Growing up alone and there was no other than me 

Loved my mother

She was my only comfort 

Tupelo was hot on a summer day 

Moved around so much and then we ended up

In Tennessee 

It didn't really matter much back then

Not to me 

My mother and my father was my

Only family

My high schools days soon quickly faded

Life played my fate to me

Had a destiny and my whole entire life

Just shattered 

Mississippi man, and I'm lonely

Mississippi man, and I need someone to hold me 

Tonight 

If you can

Mississippi man

Mississippi king 

Uncle Sam called my name 

I did my duty

Never would I be the same 

Goodbye mother

I never did lose the pain 

Met the one and I brought her into 

My world

The girl I would only love and she

Would come to leave me eventually

I loved her

I knew she knew that I did 

We were meant to be

Then came Lisa Marie 

And if I had the chance to change the way I lived

My life

I would buy an Hawaiian day and stay with them forever 

But there is just no way to change our yesterday and then

We all will fade away 

As if tomorrow never came 

The rest of me is history

The times that we shared

Thought we cared

And everything 

It's the memories that play forever in our minds

Our souls

Just like that Hawaiian day we bought and then forgot

We sold 

There's just no way that we can change tomorrow

Or our yesterday 

Fade away

Mississippi man, and I'm lonely

Mississippi man, and I need someone to hold me 

Tonight 

If you can

Mississippi man

Mississippi king