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Country Man, Won’t You Stay with Me Tonight?

Co-written in 1973 with Mary Ann Simmons in Chicago. Loosely based on a man I met at the $50 betting window at the 1973 Kentucky Derby.

I can tell you’re from Tennessee,
I can see the Smoky Mountains in Your eyes;
You talk kind funny to this city girl, I know;
But you’re gentle like a good old hound
And I think I want to keep you around,
Country man, won’t you stay with me tonight?

When you pick on your banjo like that,
I can see that everything’s gonna be fine;
Mother l’ pearl ain’t the only thing that’s gonna get laid;
So keep on drinkin’ that California wine,
We’re gonna have a goddamned good time,
Country man, won’t you stay with me tonight?

CHORUS:
City boys livin’ just for their pay,
Just about time I seen the light of day;
Tennessee Valley, give me some authority!

Daddy said to get an education,
That’s the only thing that a man can’t steal;
But, darlin’, you can go ahead and rob me blind;
Just wrap yourself around me like a sweet ‘tato vine,
That kinda schoolin’, honey, I don’t mind,
Country man, won’t you stay with me tonight?

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