I Wonder

Sometimes I think about you
 Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinking 'bout me
 And would you even recognize
 The woman that your little girl has grown up to be
 'Cause I look in the mirror and all I see
 Are your brown eyes looking back at me
 They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all
 Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California
 There's sunny skies as far as I can see
 If you ever come back home to Carolina
 I wonder what you'd say to me
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 I think about how it ain't fair
 That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do
 You weren't around to cheer me on
 Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do
 Did you think I didn't need you here?
 To hold my hand, to dry my tears?
 Did you even miss me through the years at all?
 Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California
 There's sunny skies as far as I can see
 If you ever come back home to Carolina
 I wonder what you'd say to me
 Forgiveness is such a simple word
 But it's so hard to do when you've been hurt
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 Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California
 And just in case you're wondering about me
 From now on I won't be in Carolina
 Your little girl is off, your little girl is off
 Your little girl is off to Tennessee