Beginning: G D G D G A D
D G D
I drove all day to North Mississippi
D E A
I drove all night to the place I call home
D G D
I hope that Johnny?s still waitin? there for me
D A D
To take me beside him and call me his own
G D
But it?s too late now
G D
It?s too late now
G D
The smell of magnolias
G D
Still sweet in my mouth
G A D
And I know it?s too late now
Johnny got mean when he started drinkin?
And it wasn?t nobody?s fault when he cried
So I left one mornin? from North Mississippi
Cause I couldn?t stand to tell mama I lied
Chorus
Johnny took no time to ask me to marry
And I said I would though I knew it was wrong
They played Hank Williams in North Mississippi
And I played the same girl I had all along
Chorus
Early one mornin? in North Mississippi
I swore that I could hear somebody cry
But it wasn?t my Johnny from North Mississippi
All dressed up in orange on the day that I died
Chorus:
But it?s too late now
It?s too late now
The smell of magnolias
Now gone from my mouth
And I know it?s too late now