Carolina Wren

Old Susannah was a quite sort

Never went far from her mama's porch

Books in hand, a pie on the breeze

Broker than a joker

Richer than me

I said, "Honey, how you living so good?

You ain't got nothing and they say you should"

She said, "I got everything that I need

And when I found God, happy found me"

I was down in the deepest well

Cold as the devil and broke as hell

Now the Sun's cutting through the morning fog

Deep in Appalachia, early on a walk

High in the hickory, Carolina Wren

Sing hallelujah, new life again

Sing hallelujah, new life again

In '16 there was a mighty flood

From Roane to Clay, they were buried in mud

Here comes Susie with blood on her dress

Giving all she has with all she has left

And is that sun shining in her hair

A golden crown she was promised up there?

And is that a rainbow cutting through the sky

A promise of more in the by and by?

I was down in the deepest well

Cold as the devil and broke as hell

Now the Sun's cutting through the morning fog

Deep in Appalachia, early on a walk

High in the hickory, Carolina Wren

Sing hallelujah, new life again

Sing hallelujah, new life again

I was down in the deepest well

Cold as the devil and broke as hell

Now the Sun's cutting through the morning fog

Deep in Appalachia, early on a walk

High in the hickory, Carolina Wren

Sing hallelujah, new life again

Sing hallelujah, new life again