Home In My Heart (North Carolina)

(Rodney Crowell/Claudia Church)
 I remember waking up
 Running down a dirt road
 Morning dew a shinin', watermelon by the wagon load
 Little baby brother and my sisters in the shade
 Listening to the crickets and the music that they made
 Riding on a tractor with my granpa in the summertime
 Cold bologna sandwich, green tomatoes on the garden vine
 Billy Joe McMillan was the first boy that I ever knew
 he moved to California and it broke my heart in...
 North Carolina... your pine trees so tall
 Your hills and your valleys, your cool waterfalls
 Your Blue Ridge Mountains
 Your fields and your streams
 Are lost on the back roads that run through my dreams
 Of North Carolina... Home in my heart
 Skinny legs and barefoot on the top of an abandoned car
 Pouring out my heart just like a country music singing star
 Pinecone for a microphone
 Full moon for a spotlight
 Shining down from heaven, like it's smiling on me
 North Carolina... your pine trees so tall
 Your hills and your valleys, your cool waterfalls
 Your Blue Ridge Mountains
 Your fields and your streams
 Are lost on the back roads that run through my dreams
 Of North Carolina... Home in my heart
 Although it seems like yesterday
 I'm still a million miles away
 Going to the ocean in my uncle's new sedan
 Daddy's in the Army, there's a war in Vietnam
 Mama kept us going with her sewing and a prayer
 It's hard to be a family when your daddy's missing
 North Carolina... your pine trees so tall
 Your hills and your valleys, your cool waterfalls
 Your Blue Ridge Mountains
 Your fields and your streams
 Are lost on the back roads that run through my dreams
 Of North Carolina... Home in my heart
 Home in my heart
 Home in my heart