I was born down in the country

Down where the cotton grows

Turnin' off the main highway

Goin' down that country road

There's a place down in the country

Where the pine trees grow so tall

Walk across that old log bridge stretching 'cross black river

Swamp

I can hear them bullfrogs croaking

In the blackness of the night calling me back to

My childhood

Down here in black river swamp

Saw my name carved on a big oak tree

Down there by the fishing hole

And the smell of old black river

Where the waters are deep and cold

I can hear the hound dogs howlin'

Chasin' that old fox where I used to roam

Down there in the country

Callin' me to black river swamp

I can hear them hound dogs howlin'

Chasin' that old fox where I used to roam

Down there in the country

Callin' me back to black river swamp

I was born down in the country

Down where the cotton grows

Turnin' off the main highway

Goin' down that country road

There's a place down in the country where the pine

Trees grow so tall

Go across that log bridge stretching 'cross black river swamp