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Lulu Mae
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The Mockingbird and the Dogwood Tree
This is the country, the land of my blood
It is green in the summertime after the rivers go to flood
And my woman she is reading on the front porch of my home
I remember back when she was young and praying we'd never grow old
Tennessee my father though a prodigal I have been
How I left you so long ago; my name into the wind
And there on my return you put a ring upon my thumb
It was longer than the Mississippi and woven like the iris's tongue
And oh! My God, I am so glad to be free
We are drawn together like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
Like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
From Memphis up to Nashville down to Chattanooga too
From Knoxville to Johnson City I'm going there with you
And the songs that we will sing will rise like smoke between these hills
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Rising up like thunder and cascading through the valleys and the rills
And oh! My God, I am so glad to be free
We are drawn together like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
Like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
And baby, just maybe, if you belong to me
The ways that I frighten you will sink beneath the waves upon the sea
And they'll stay down there til our hair goes gray
No they won't have to scare you anymore
And oh! My God, I am so glad to be free
We are drawn together like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
Like the mockingbird and the dogwood tree
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