(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