Song Description

An airline disaster takes the life of a young woman about to achieve her ambitions

Lyrics

Love-You Wave Goodbye

Verse 1
She was happy she was pretty
In her best appointment dress
West-bound for Atlanta head held high
She expected something wonderful
Would fall in place that day
Comair 5 1 9 1 through the sky

She kissed her man and left him
With a love-you wave goodbye
West-bound for Atlanta head held high
She'd crossed-fingers what she dreamed of
Would take firm shape that day
Comair 5 1 9 1 through the sky
Chorus
Now he's grieving disbelieving
That this happy pretty scene
Beneath a warm pre-dawn Kentucky sky
Blown kisses and a smiling wave
Of confident return
Could be her final love-you wave goodbye
Would be her final love-you wave goodbye
Verse 2
As her plane sped the wrong runway
In Kentucky's dark pre-dawn
West-bound for Atlanta head held high
She was thinking only happiness
Could fall in place that day
Comair 5 1 9 1 through the sky

But that Lexington departure
Was a one-way ticket ride
West-bound for Atlanta head held high

2 spoken lines
God decided her true calling was
Some higher place that day

And took her plane before it reached the sky
Chorus
Now he's grieving disbelieving
That this happy pretty scene
Beneath a warm pre-dawn Kentucky sky
Blown kisses and a smiling wave
Of confident return
Could be her final love-you wave goodbye
Would be her final love-you wave goodbye

Verse 3
She'd been happy, looked so pretty
In her best appointment dress
West-bound for Atlanta head held high
She'd kissed her man and smiled him
Her last love-you wave goodbye
But then God chose to take her to his sky

Chorus
Now he's grieving disbelieving
That this happy pretty scene
Beneath a warm pre-dawn Kentucky sky
Blown kisses and a smiling wave
Of confident return
Could be her final love-you wave goodbye
Be her final love-you wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
Wave goodbye
Would be her final love-you wave goodbye