"Magnolia" lyrics

I drove all day to North Mississippi
I drove all night to the place I call home
I hope that Johnny's still waitin' there for me
To take me beside him and call me his own

But it's too late now
It's too late now
The smell of magnolias
Still sweet in my mouth
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

But it's too late now
It's too late now
The smell of magnolias
Still sweet in my mouth
And I know it's too late now

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

But it's too late now
It's too late now
The smell of magnolias
Still sweet in my mouth
And I know it's too late now

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

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