(mark alan springer/jerry laseter)



Your teacher might've told you it was five thousand something feet

That ain't to far in a car or on a city street

Let me tell you son, back where i come from

You learn as a little child

There ain't nothing any longer than a louisiana country mile



Amos walker said he'd shoot me next time he caught me crossing his fence

But i was too much in love to reallly think about it back then

Walking that tree cross thibidioux creek

I can still see them gators smile

But she was worth every step of that louisiana country mile



That path got shorter as i fell deeper

I'd swim that old swamp if i had to to see her

Those days are gone and she's a memory,

But when that road looks long it hits me

There's a treasure at the end of most of life's troubles and trials

And there ain't nothing longer than a louisiana country mile



I've come a long way from that little house back in the woods

And i know i don't get back there as much as i should

But every now and then when the walls close in i can still smile

I close my eyes and let my mind walk that louisiana country mile



That path got shorter as i fell deeper

I'd swim that old swamp if i had to to see her

Those days are gone and she's a memory,

But when that road looks long it hits me

There's a treasure at the end of most of life's troubles and trials

And there ain't nothing longer than a louisiana country mile

Don't talk till you've walked that louisiana country mile