©1989 Irving Music, Inc./ Ponder Heart Music, (BMI)



Well I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rain
These Delta towns that wear satin gowns
In a high beamed frame
Loretta Lynn guides my hands through the radio
Where would I be in times like these
Without the songs Loretta wrote?

Chorus:
When you can't find a friend
You've still got the radio
When you can't find a friend
You've still got the radio
The radio, listen to the radio
The radio, listen to the radio
It's the radio

I left a handsome two-stepped good ole boy in Tennessee
Now, he's sittin' on the sofa, he's lookin' for his supper
Wonderin' what's become of me
I've got a double-o-eighteen Martin guitar in the back seat of the car
And I am eaving Mississippi…with the radio on

(Repeat Chorus)

There's a moon across the border in the Louisiana sky
I smell the Pontchartrain, I hear Silver Wings
And then away Merle Haggard flies
That good ole boy will find a Band of Gold on the stereo
Hey, then my Mama's gonna call and say, "Where's she gone?"
He'll say, "Down the road with the radio on."