Emmylou Harris

Released: December 29, 1975

Songwriter: Rodney Crowell Emmylou Harris

Producer: Brian Ahern

[Verse 1]
My baby never was the cheating kind
But it wasn't 'cause the ladies didn't try
Now everywhere we go they're walking around him slow
Giving him a flutter and a sigh
Now I got him past that redhead in Atlanta
Lord, I walked all over that black-eyed Cajun Queen
But outside of Amarillo, he found his thrill, I'll tell you
Oh, I lost him to a jukebox and a pinball machine

[Chorus]
Oh, Amarillo what you want my baby for?
Oh, Amarillo now he won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me, hooked him in the first degree
He'll put another quarter, push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine

[Verse 2]
If we only hadn't stopped in there for coffee
If someone hadn't played "The Window Up Above"
Oh, he'd still be mine today but he heard those fiddles play
One look and then I knew this must be love
Oh, that pinball machine's in the corner
Well, he saw the lights and he had to hear them ring
And he never was the same after he won his first free game
Oh, I lost him to a jukebox and pinball machine

[Chorus]
Oh, Amarillo what you want my baby for?
Oh, Amarillo now he won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me, now you hooked him in the first degree
He'll put another quarter, push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine

Oh, Amarillo what you want my baby for?
Oh, Amarillo now he won't come home no more
You done played a trick on me, hooked him in the first degree
He'll put another quarter, push Dolly and then Porter
While he racks up fifty thousand on the pinball machine

Emmylou Harris was born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 2, 1947 to Walter and Eugenia Harris. She attended Garfield Senior High School where she graduated as Valedictorian. She then went to UNCG School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro but dropped out to pursue her musical talents.

Emmylou married Tom Slocum in 1969, but this was a very short marriage as they divorced the following year. It was long enough, however, to produce a daughter, Mika Hallie Slocum, on March 15, 1970. In 1977 she married Brian Ahern and they were married roughly seven years. The couple had one daughter together, Meghann Theresa “M.T” Ahern, born September 9, 1979. In 1985, she married Paul Kennerley who she was married to until 1993.

The 5'5" singer-songwriter is known for songs such as “Beneath Still Waters”, “Together Again”, “Two More Bottles of Wine”.

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