Big headed man I remember your name;
two years ago to my town you came.
Your name riding high up on everyone’s mouth,
that’s the way I spoke it when you took me down.
Drive slow, daddy slow, when you’re taking me down,
slide fast, daddy fast, when you’re coming to town.
When you know, when you know that you really love me,
then it’s time to shake it down in the blue valley.
You filed your nails at the side of my bed;
you tapped your boots and my name you said.
In the shade of my room, as the sun rolled down,
and the creak of my floor as you left my town.
Your books, your words, well, you keep them inside
in the dim of your pockets where these worlds collide.
in the dim of your hat and the shadows it pulls
from your eyes, from your eyes, to your workman’s boots
Drive slow, daddy slow, when you’re taking me down,
slide fast daddy fast when you’re coming to town.
When you know, when you know that you really love me,
then it’s time to shake it down in the blue valley.
So cool, so cool, always playing it down,
but everybody’s mama knows you own this town,
and they smiled, and they smiled when you made love to me,
cause we need another preacher in the blue valley.
All week, all year the valley’s cupped hands;
it’s the price that you pay when a lady you land.
Your heart so blue, spreading thin as the sky,
drifts in to my room where another man lies.
Drive slow, daddy slow, when you’re taking me down,
slide fast, daddy fast, when you’re coming to town,
when you know, when you know that you really love me,
then it’s time to shake it down in the blue valley.