Lonnie And Josie Lyrics

Lonnie And Josie

Me and Lonnie thumbed down a Cadillac



Outside Laredo in the heat of
the sun,



The driver was tanned and he looked like a salesman,



We were just children on the run.





He talked real
funny like we'd never heard,



Must have been foreign I guess,



And I felt like an actress in an old movie



As Lonnie and
I drove west.





We were saying goodbye to the ones left
behind,



Hello to the ones up ahead,



Lonnie and me
were just drumming our knees,



While the radio D.J. said -





Keep your eyes open for Lonnie and Josie,



Sixteen
and fourteen, playing hookey from school,



Last seen they were
walking the road by the courtroom



Downtown Laredo at a quarter
past two.





Our friend in the front seat turned around and
smiled,



Grinning and shaking his head,



Asked us
politely where we were going,



Where the sand turns to sea on the
coast, I said.





We were crossing the border just out of
Texas,



Passed the last dusty abandoned old farm,



With
the A:M. playing the songs of Sinatra,



And Lonnie sleeping in my
arms.