I fell over backwards when I got the news She was a friend of many years I pulled over off a gravel road somewhere I'm in a mood to shed my blues I'm in a mood ‘Cause I left Tallaha**ee in the rain and I drove all the night through Georgia and I reached Tennessee before sunrise and I cried all the way to Memphis Some fingerprints were lifted from her bedside tray She never went to work that day Her k**er was a man she met in acting cla** Who cast her in his foul play his foul play his foul play ‘Cause I left Tallaha**ee in the rain and I drove all the night through Georgia and I reached Tennessee before sunrise and I cried all the way to Memphis An apple from the orchard falls onto the ground and if there are no worms around the sun will take and bake into a rotting core Until the seeds are there no more are there no more ‘Cause I left Tallaha**ee in the rain and I drove all the night through Georgia and I reached Tennessee before sunrise and I cried all the way to Memphis I left Tallaha**ee in the rain and I drove all the night through Georgia and I reached Tennessee before sunrise and I cried all the way to Memphis