I remember waking up, running down a dirt road   Morning dew a shining, watermelon by the wagon load   Little baby brother and my sisters in the shade   Listening to the crickets and the music that they made      Riding on a tractor with my grandpa in the summertime   Cold bologna sandwich, green tomatoes on the garden vine   Billy Joe McMillan was the first boy that I ever knew   He moved to California and it broke my heart in      North Carolina, your pine trees so tall   Your hills and valleys, your cool waterfalls   Your Blue Ridge Mountains, your fields and your streams   Are lost on the back roads that run through my dreams   Of North Carolina, home in my heart      Skinny legs and barefoot on the top of an abandoned car   Pouring out my heart just like a country music singing star   Pine cone for a microphone, full moon for a spotlight   Shining down from heaven like it's smiling on me      North Carolina, your pine trees so tall   Your hills and valleys, your cool waterfalls   Your Blue Ridge Mountains, your fields and your streams   Are lost on the back roads that run through my dreams   Of North Carolina, home in my heart      Although it seems like yesterday, I'm still a million miles away   Going to the ocean in my uncle's new sedan   Daddy's in the Army, there's a war in Vietnam   Mama kept us going with her sewing and a prayer   It's hard to be a family when your daddy's missing      North Carolina, your pine trees so tall   Your hills and valleys, your cool waterfalls   Your Blue Ridge Mountains, your fields and your streams   Are lost on the back roads that run through my dreams   Of North Carolina, home in my heart      Home in my heart   Home in my heart