Oh Amelia, oh Amelia    A southern woman, a southern woman    Never had a chance to say goodbye       I met her back in sixty-three,    She was such a mystery    She was there on Barron Street,    Down in New Orleans    So wild, but yet so tame,    She could calm a hurricane    She was only seventeen    And Amelia was her name       Oh when I took her for a ride,    She got close by my side    And when I looked into her eye,    Amelia kept me hypnotized    But in my heart she fell,    Oh, I got pulled into her spell    I can still see her there,    With the flowers in her hair       Oh Amelia, my southern woman, oh my woman    I can still feel you, feel you,    Feel you, everytime I close my eyes    Sweet Amelia, sweet Amelia    Where did you run to    We never had a chance to say goodbye    Never heard her say goodbye       I remember making love    Underneath the stars above    I can feel the summer breeze    Up in magnolia trees    That night in the southern light,    The girl she took me by the hand    I was weak as a little lamb,    But I became a man       Love was pumping through my veins,    Her lips were sweet like sugarcane    We rode all night in the rain,    'Cross lake Poncetrain    She had a heart as fine as fire,    Burning innocent desire    I can still see her there,    With flowers in her hair       Oh Amelia, oh Amelia    A southern woman, a southern woman    I can still feel you,    Everytime I close my eyes    Sweet Amelia, sweet Amelia    Where did you run to, where'd you run to    We never had a chance to say goodbye    Never want to say goodbye       Just like a shooting star,    She vanished in the night    But I'll always remember    Her lips so warm and tender    And in my heart    She'll always shine so bright    Sweet Amelia, if I could just    See her one more time       Oh Amelia, my southern woman    A southern woman,    I can still feel you, oh I can feel you,    Everytime I close my eyes, close my eyes    Sweet Amelia, sweet Amelia    Where did you run to    We never had a chance to say goodbye    (Never, never, never, never never say goodbye)       Oh Amelia, oh Amelia    A southern woman, a southern woman    I can still feel you,    Everytime I close my eyes    Sweet Amelia, sweet Amelia    Where did you run to    We never had a chance to say goodbye       Oh Amelia, a southern woman,    A southern woman    I can still feel you,    Everytime I close my eyes,    From the bottom of my heart    Sweet Amelia, sweet Amelia,    Where did you run to    Where did you run to    We never had a chance to say goodbye