VERSE 1 JACKSON: You came up from the rivers Where the magnolias grow You carry Spanish moss and Sunday morning Everywhere you go ME: I came down from the factory smoke And the Detroit winter cold I carry Motown in my bloodstream And a story to be told PRE-CHORUS BOTH: And somewhere on a highway Between where we began We found out America was smaller Than the plan CHORUS Detroit to Savannah Is a long way to fall in love Detroit to Savannah Is where north met south and gave up Being strangers, being separate, Being different kinds of true Detroit to Savannah — I found America in you VERSE 2 JACKSON: Your people built the cotton My people built the cars We were always in the same country Just different kinds of scars YOU: But the music doesn't know The lines that people draw And your bass line sounds like something That my grandmother once saw In a dream about the future When the future felt like grace BOTH: And here we are in the future Looking at each other's face PRE-CHORUS BOTH: And something in the singing Erases all the miles And something in the harmony Sounds like reconciled CHORUS Detroit to Savannah Is a long way to fall in love Detroit to Savannah Is where north met south and gave up Being strangers, being separate, Being different kinds of true Detroit to Savannah — I found America in you BRIDGE (trombone solo — slow and yearning) (then both voices, quietly) JACKSON: I never thought I'd find it YOU: I never thought I'd know BOTH: What America could sound like When it lets its history go Not forget — just carry it Into something true Detroit to Savannah Me to you FINAL CHORUS Detroit to Savannah Nine hundred miles of grace Detroit to Savannah Found each other face to face We are all the distance Between who we've been Detroit to Savannah Is where America begins Again
