(Is This The Way To) Amarillo

Album: Definitive Collection (1971)
Charted: 1
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  • When the day is dawning
    On a Texas Sunday morning
    How I like to be there
    With marie who's waiting for me there
    Every lonely city where I hang my hat
    Ain't as half as pretty
    As where my baby's at
    Is this the way to Amarillo
    Every night I'm huggin my pillow
    Dreming dreams of Amarillo
    And sweet Marie who waits for me
    Show me the way to Amarillo
    I've been weeping like a willow
    Crying over Amarillo
    And sweet Marie who waits for me

    Sha la la la la la la x3

    And Marie who waits for me
    Thers a church bell ringing
    With a song of joy that is singing
    For the sweet Marie
    And the guy that coming to see her
    Just beyond the highway
    There's an open plane that it keeps me going
    Through the wind and rain
    Sha la la la la la la
    And Marie who waits for me Writer/s: Howard Greenfield, Neil Sedaka
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Comments: 3

  • Andy from Halesowen, West Midlands, United KingdomSome British Troops also made a spoof copy of the video which became a big youtube hit.

    Another song called simply Amarillo was recorded by Emmylou Harris on her second album Elite Hotel. It is a lively song too, a comic lament about a girl who keeps her good looking boyfriend despite the attentions of other ladies, only to lose him to a jukebox and pinball machine in Amarillo. The song was written by Rodney Crowell, then a member of Emmylou's Hot Band.
  • Graham from Windsor, AustraliaThe rhyme of "Amarillo" and "pillow" is very creative!
  • Zabadak from London, EnglandIn the video referred to above, the celebrities were filmed on a treadmill with the backing added later. Comedian Ronnie Corbett fell over and this was left in the finished edit!
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