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