Steve Hood/Harley Allen/Denise Draper)



The highway sign said the Georgia line

Was twenty miles away

So I thought I'd take a detour

And see the old home place

I could have found my way

With my eyes closed and in the dark

This ol' dirt road ain't on no map

I knew the way by heart



And the house still looks the same

Though the name on that ol' mail box has been changed

And a tractor turn the earth

That my grandpa and a mule had plowed up first

As the memories return and my eye began to burn

This ol' place has new faces in the fields



The rockin' chairs on the font porch

Move from a sudden wind

It's almost like my mom and dad

Were sittin' there again

I hear my brother callin' from

His favorite climbin' tree

But I'm just hearin' echoes

Of how it used to be



And the house still looks the same

Though the name on that ol' mail box has been changed

And a tractor turn the earth

That my grandpa and a mule had plowed up first

As the memories return and my eye began to burn

This ol' place has new faces in the fields