Take Me to the Mountains

Verse 1

While walking down a lonely city street

By chance there an old man I did meet

As I knelt there by his side, the tears came to his eyes,

When he gently took my hand and said to me

Verse 2

When I was just a boy back on the farm,

I remember mom and daddy's love so warm

Oh how I long to go back to those Carolina hills

and the little one room shack where I was born

Chorus

Son, take me to the mountains that I love, where the timber gently bends with the wind

Where the hound dogs chase the possums, and the mountain laurel blossoms

Take me to the mountains that I love, Take me to the mountains that I love

Verse 3

Gathered round the fireplace in the evening,

Many times Id sit on momma's knees

While she read to me the Bible, by the oil lantern light

and in memory now I hear her voice so sweet

Verse 4

Warmer days we camped out in the springtime

Way up on the head of Caney Creek

Where I'd listen to the whippoorwills calling in the night,

and the Katydids would sing me off to sleep

Chorus

Son, take me to the mountains that I love, where the timber gently bends with the wind

Where the hound dogs chase the possums, and the mountain laurel blossoms

Take me to the mountains that I love, Take me to the mountains that I love