In an Appalachian Greyhound station/ she sits there waiting/ in a family way/ good-bye brother/ tell mom I love her/ tell all the others/ I'll write someday/ teenage lover/ to an unwed mother/ kept undercover/ like some bad dream/ but unwed fathers/ they cant be bothered/ they run like water/ through a mountain stream/ in a cold and grey town/ a nurse says lay down/ this ain't no playground/ and this ain't home/ someone's children/ out having children/ in a grey stone building/ all alone/ (Chorus) / somewhere else bound/ Smokey Mountain Greyhound/ she bows her head down/ humming lullabies/ your daddy never/ meant to hurt you ever/ he just don't live here/ but you got his eyes/ (Chorus)