Cheryl Wheeler - Lighting Up the Mighty Mississippi lyrics

Big yellow moon, dark blue sky Lighting up the mighty Mississippi I'm headed home, I can't decide If my heart is just too full or just too empty Through the thousands of miles of the rivers and hills And the highways I've come to know so well I always knew I could fall back on you Now it wouldn't matter which way I fell Still it's nice to keep movin', down the dotted line Past the tractors in their amber waves of grain If I keep my eyes open, take a little time No two towns will ever look the same And sometimes on the AM radio I get a little local Polka show And folks are friendly everywhere I go Drank too much in Dayton, paid the whole next day The snow in South Dakota was so dry it blew away And it's not like someone's waitin' when I get home anyway So I leave for Portland pretty soon, then down through Monterey But right now this big old yellow moon is filling up the sky And lighting up the mighty Mississippi