Drinking weren't allowed in the barn where we danced But you could buy a coke at the store up front The old man wore a path in that dirt road parking lot From the back door of that barn to their trunk That's the way it was on a Tennessee Saturday night Just shooting the bull and dancing the night away We sure had fun on a Tennessee Saturday night Down at Jack's truck stop and cafe It sure got hot in the sleepy southern town The night got as thick as the day We'd open up them garage doors and we'd plug the shop fan in You could hear that band pickin' thirty blocks away That's the way it was on a Tennessee Saturday night Just shooting the bull and dancing the night away We sure had fun on a Tennessee Saturday night Down at Jack's truck stop and cafe