While driving down the last four miles of gravel road to home   All the old familiar landmarks seem like long lost friends   As he pulls in to the ranch he see's his mom hangin' out the wash   And dad is ridin' down the old yellow with old smokie   He never realized what a good cook his mom was   I guess he took a lot of things for granite   But for the past year he has been living on blogne burgers and beans   And he thinks he just might stay home for awhile   Well there's a dance in town tonight    And he figures he'll just go in and see some of his old friends   Well he runs into Bill and John and they ask    Where all he's been and about the bulls   Well then from behind him he hears someone call his name   He turns around to see a beautiful young lady   He doesn't recognise him at first but then it dawns on him   This is the same skinny little girl who use to tag along with him back in high school   My how the flowers grow well they danced and talked about things   And somewhere around midnight for the first time in his life   The cowboy realizes he is fallin' in love   And you know what I guess it was bound to happen