Multi-Colored Lady

Got on a bus in Memphis

Destination Rome

Georgia ain't no paradise

But a place I just call home

I sat next to a broken hearted bride

She was cryin', tryin' so hard to hide

Her selfish sorrow

I tried to get her talkin'

She didn't have much to say

She asked me for a map to death row

But I didn't know the way

She had lost a million in the game

One look out the window

At the pine trees and the rain

It wasn't her day

Multicolored lady

You ain't like no rainbow I've ever seen

Multicolored lady

Angry red, passion blue

But mostly shades of green

Midnight came and brought more rain

Nothing seemed to ease her pain

The hours that we talked

Seemed like minutes all in vane

I watched

As her tears kept runnin' wide

Bye and bye and bye, way back after a while

She started smilin'

Multicolored lady

You ain't like no rainbow I've ever known

Multicolored lady

Come go with me, I'll take you to my home

Oh, by the way, I'm bound for Rome