The first things I remember are frosty

Carolina mornings with a cheery fire

Crackling in my mommas big black

Wood cook stove

I remember snow flakes as big as goose

Feathers and the moon the color of new

Made country butter and a night sky

Like diamonds against black velvet reaching

From horizon to horizon

I remember when the biggest problems

In my barefoot life were sand spurs and

Red ant hills

I remember sitting with my grand daddy

On the front porch and watching the last

Of that magnificent southern sun

Bleed away into the twilight sky

I remember sunday school and kneeling

At the cross and trying to imagine what

God looked like sunday dinner short

Pants hair cuts and a little puppy my

Daddy brought home to me

And I remember love

I remember steam puffing fire breathing

Awesome 10 wheel locomotives and the

Conductors watch looked as big as one

Of my grand mothers biscuits

I remember my mother smiling in a red

And white cherckered dress and christmas

Always seemed so far away

Yes I remember you Carolina

Grand old lady if the South

I remember you as home

One of the memories

That stays on my mind

About an old southern lady

That I left behind

Is a ramshackle bridge

Where the deep river winds

And an old two-lane blacktop

Through the tall long-leaf pines

Carolina Carolina

You're hard but you're hard to forget

I still remember the magnolia nights

And goosefeather snow flakes

In the gray morning light

Sandspurs and puppies

And red autumn leaves

And the warm lights in the clear night

On a cold Christmas Eve

Carolina Carolina

You're hard but you're hard to forget

Carolina I knew you

Before the highways got to you

And I loved you as one of your own

And I still do

Carolina Carolina

You're hard but you're hard to forget

You're hard To Forget