Carolina

[Verse 1] 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 colour 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 Conductor's watch looked As big as one of my grandmothers biscuits I remember my mother smiling In a red and white chequered dress and Christmas Always seemed so far away. Yes, I remember you Carolina Grand old lady of 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 [Chorus] Carolina, Carolina You're hard, but you're hard to forget [Verse 2] I still remember the magnolia nights And goose feather snow flakes in the gray morning light; Sand spurs and puppies and red autumn leaves And the warm lights in the clear night on a cold Christmas Eve [Chorus] [Bridge] Carolina I knew you Before the highways got to you And I loved you as one of your own And I still do [Chorus]