Mile marker ninety-two on forty goin' west

I'd been drivin' without rest the whole night through

I saw this little cardboard sign about to fade away

Made a tear roll down my face with just one line



Patsy come home

It said, Patsy come home

I bet a mother's watchin' out a window

Or a lover's waitin' by the phone

No matter who's wrong

No matter what you're runnin' from

Somebody's tryin' to tell you they love you

Patsy come home



By Little Rock the rain was turnin' into snow

By now I'd prayed she'd gone back home again

I won't forget for some time the hopeful kind of love

Or the desperation of that cardboard sign



It said

Patsy come home

It said, Patsy come home

I know a mother's watchin' out a window

Or a lover's waitin' by the phone

No matter who's wrong

No matter what you're runnin' from

Somebody's trying to tell you they love you

Patsy come home



Somebody's trying to tell you they love you

Patsy come home