Carolina (I Remember You)

The first things I remember are frosty Carolina mornings with a cheery fire

crackling in my mommas big black wood cook stove

I remember snow flakes as big as goose feathers and the moon the color of new

made country butter and a night sky like diamonds against black velvet reaching

from horizon to horizon

I remember when the biggest problems in my barefoot life were sand spurs and

red ant hills

I remember sitting with my grand daddy on the front porch and watching the last

of that magnificent southern sun bleed away into the twilight sky

I remember sunday school and kneeling at the cross and trying to imagine what

God looked like sunday dinner short pants hair cuts and a little puppy my

daddy brought home to me and I remember love

I remember steam puffing fire breathing awesome 10 wheel locomotives and the

conductors watch looked as big as one of my grand mothers biscuits

I remember my mother smiling in a red and white cherckered dress and christmas

always seemed so far away yes I remember you Carolina grand old lady if the

south

I remember you as home

One of the memories that stays on my mind

about an old southern lady that I left behind

is a ramshackle bridge where the deep river winds

and an old two-lane blacktop through the tall long-leaf pines

Carolina, Carolina

You're hard but you're hard to forget

I still remember the magnolia nights

and goosefeather snow flakes in the gray morning light

sandspurs and puppies and red autumn leaves

and the warm lights in the clear night on a cold Christmas Eve

Carolina, Carolina

You're hard but you're hard to forget

Carolina I knew you

before the highways got to you

and I loved you as one of your own

and I still do

Carolina, Carolina

You're hard but you're hard to forget

You're hard To Forget