[Verse 1]
I've got a blue motel room with a blue bedspread
I've got the blues inside and outside my head
Will you still love me when I call you up when I'm down?
Here in Savannah it's pouring rain
Palm trees in the porch light like slick black cellophane
Will you still love me when I call you up when I get back to town?

[Chorus 1]
I know that you've got all those pretty girls coming on
Hanging on your boom-boom-pachyderm
Will you tell those girls that you've got German Measles
Honey, tell them you've got germs
I hope you'll be thinking of me because I'll be thinking of you
While I'm traveling home alone
Tell those girls that you've got Joni, she's coming back home

[Verse 2]
I've got road maps from two dozen states
I've got coast to coast just to contemplate
Will you still love me when I get back to town?
It's funny how these old feelings hang around
You think they're gone, no, no, they just go underground
Will you still love me when I get back to L.A. town?

[Chorus 2]
You and me, we're like America and Russia
We're always keeping score
We're always balancing the power
And that can get to be a cold, cold war
We're going to have to hold ourselves a peace talk
In some neutral café
You lay down your sneaking round the town honey
And I'll lay down the highway
[Outro]
I've got a blue motel room with a blue bedspread
I've got the blues inside and outside my head
Will you still love me when I get back to town?