She stands there in the doorway of a cheap hotel

And both have seen their days

One time southern beauty fill her eyes

But now there's just a trace

Sometimes for almost nothing

She offers her love to passers by

She's an old and fading sunset

That once lit up the whole savannah sky

It's still there upon her lips

In the movement of her hips

And though she's twenty years past a lady

Her love once was in demand

It bought diamonds for her hands

But now she can't give it away

In a big Chicago mansion lies a man

With a woman he don't love

But his thoughts go back to a pretty Georgia girl

When all he had was not enough

He remembers all the good times

And the pleasures she gave him in the night

God he loved that woman

That once lit up the whole savannah sky

It's still there upon her lips

In the movement of her hips

And though she's twenty years past a lady

Her love once was in demand

It bought diamonds for her hands

But now she can't give it away

Now she can't give it away