On a two lane highway in the delta Uncle Paul met his fate Driving up the old Natchez Trace Marianne was a beauty queen who lived across the street That year she won the pageant, Mobley couldn't be beat The whole town was blowing up, Paul was out til 4am He did himself some drinking, smoked his Picayune cigarettes And right there on the roadside Uncle Paul met his fate Driving up the old Natchez Trace He met Camille and Louise there at 7:38 He headed for his sisters though he'd be pretty late Bernie and the boys would be there, sister Sarah too Out there in Wynona where my family lost it's rule And right there on the roadside Uncle Paul met his fate Driving up the old Natchez Trace And the last thing he saw was the blur of the stars And then all of a sudden everything went dark He started drifting off around 8:01 am He left the road a couple times, he left it once again His car flipped upside down and landed in a ditch Where the Kudzu had claimed him because the soil was black and rich And right there on the roadside Uncle Paul met his fate Driving up the old Natchez Trace And the last thing he saw was the blur of the stars And then all of a sudden everything went dark