(Verse 1)
Left Tulsa with a tank of gas and a half-broke radio
A map folded on the dash, nowhere special I was gonna go
Just chasing that white-line fever, a little restless in my bones
‘Til I saw those Georgia pines, and a sign said “Welcome to Rome”
(Chorus)
Yeah, I was a tumbleweed rolling with the wind
A lone guitar with a slightly bent string
But the road don’t feel so long, and the miles don’t seem so mean
When you find your missing melody in a Georgia sunbeam
I was just passin’ through, lookin’ for a view
But the view I found was you… in a pair of old blue jeans
(Verse 2)
She was humming Patsy Cline, wiping down a diner countertop
Said, “The pie’s a dollar-fifty, but the coffee’s free ’til we stop”
Her smile was a tractor beam, pulled my truck right off the asphalt
Next thing I know I’m ordering seconds, falling fast and that’s a fact
(Chorus)
Yeah, I was a tumbleweed rolling with the wind
A lone guitar with a slightly bent string
But the road don’t feel so long, and the miles don’t seem so mean
When you find your missing melody in a Georgia sunbeam
I was just passin’ through, lookin’ for a view
But the view I found was you… in a pair of old blue jeans
(Bridge)
We talked ’til the neon buzzed on, she loved Merle and George Jones
I played her a lick I’d been workin’ on, right there on the patio
She tapped her boot on the wooden floor, and I knew right then and there
My destination wasn’t a city, it was the twinkle in her stare
(Guitar Solo)
Up-tempo, joyful country-rock guitar solo with some hot licks, building in energy.
(Chorus)
Now I’m a settled-down man with a permanent grin!
A six-string ringin’, a new life beginnin’!
‘Cause the road led me right where I was always s’posed to be
To my own sweet melody, my Georgia sunbeam
I wasn’t passin’ through, I was comin’ home
The minute I saw you… in those old blue jeans!
(Outro)
Yeah, the highway’s in my rearview now…
Got a white-picket rhythm and a sweetheart vow…
Oh, my Georgia sunbeam…
Keep shinin’ on me…
(Up-tempo guitar riff fades out)