Takes

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Well I heard some talk about my homeland

Comin' from a stranger's mouth

Sayin' all we got is red clay and slow ways

Way down in the sleepy south

But they never sat out on the porch line

Watchin' fireflies light the yard

They don't know the kindness in the low pines

Or how we hold on to what's hard

[Chorus]

Sweet Carolina skies, won't you carry me home

To the river and the pines where I was born

Say what you want to, I've heard it all before

I'm proud of the dirt road right outside my door

Sweet Carolina skies, that's where my heart belongs

[Verse 2]

Got a mama singin' hymns on Sunday

Got a daddy with his hands like stone

They built a life from nothin' but a promise

And a little patch of land to call their own

So you can keep your headlines and your judgments

Keep your maps that draw us small

I've got a hundred years of family callin'

And I intend to answer all

[Chorus]

Sweet Carolina skies, won't you carry me home

To the river and the pines where I was born

Say what you want to, I've heard it all before

I'm proud of the dirt road right outside my door

Sweet Carolina skies, that's where my heart belongs

[Bridge]

We ain't perfect, never claimed to be

But we know how to love our own

Every scar upon this old red county

Still it's the only ground I've known

[Chorus]

Sweet Carolina skies, won't you carry me home

To the river and the pines where I was born

Say what you want to, I've heard it all before

I'm proud of the dirt road right outside my door

Sweet Carolina skies, that's where my heart belongs

Model notes (creation log)

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