Drinking weren't allowed, in the barn where he danced But you can buy her Coke from the store up front The old man wore a path, in that dirt road parking lot From the back door of that barn to their trunk That's the way it was on a Tennessee Saturday night Just shooting the bull and dancing the night away We sure had fun on a Tennessee Saturday night Down at Jack's truck stop and café ♪ It sure got hot in that sleepy southern town The night there got as thick as the day We'd open up them garage doors, and we'd plug the shop fan in And you could hear that band pickin' 30 blocks away That's the way it was on a Tennessee Saturday night Just shooting the bull and dancing the night away We sure had fun on a Tennessee Saturday night Down at Jack's truck stop and café Down at Jack's truck stop and café