Dan Fogelberg – Tucson Arizona (Guitar)

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Tucson, Arizona

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Rising in the heat like a mirage

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Tony keeps his Chevy

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Like a virgin, locked in his garage

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He brings it out at midnight

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And cruises down the empty boulevards

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And he prowls the darkened alleys

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That snake between the city's thirsty yards

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The lonely desert skies reflect the anger in his eyes, and it is dawn

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His father died of drinking

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And left five children, sinking with his mom

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His older brother, Bobby

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Never made it back from Vietnam

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With high school well behind him

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He lives at home and works this shitty job

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And he thinks his '60 Chevy

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Is the only true amigo that he's got

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His heart is filled with sadness and his soul is like some ugly vacant lot

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Mary Estelle Hanna

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Came out from Louisiana for the sun

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A deal gone bad in Dallas

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Left her burned and broke and on the run

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To make the rent and groceries

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She takes this job at 3.15 an hour

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Serving shots of whiskey

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And tequila in some smoky red-neck bar

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And she dreams some day she'll make her way to L.A. and become a movie star

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Tony saw her working

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He swallowed hard and asked her for a date

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Mary laughed and answered,

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"I would, but every night I'm working late"

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He said he had some cocaine

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That she could have if she'd just ride along

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She said, "What the hell, I may as well

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I haven't had no fun in so damn long"

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He picked her up at closing time

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They pulled out on the road and they were gone

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Tony's mom got frantic

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When she found her son had not come home

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Mary's roommate panicked

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And called the sheriff from a public phone

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They asked her lots of questions

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She tried her best to tell them what she saw

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And late that night they found poor Mary

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Lying in some narrow, dusty draw

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The coroner reported, that she hadn't been deceased for very long

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Two weeks on they found it

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Buried to the windshield in the sand

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There inside lay Tony

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With a small revolver in his hand

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The papers simply stated

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It must have been the drugs that drove him mad

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The neighbours speculated

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What could make a good boy go so bad

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Well, it might have been the desert heat

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It might have been the home he never had