Lyrics

PLANTING SHOES (East Tennessee)

VERSE
I will remember long after summer.
Locks of lightening fell and
It was just as well.
I kept your picture so I could carry
Smells of your garden fare
With my little brother holding fists of turnips there.

CHORUS
And I wore your planting shoes.
They started telling about you.
Too big to fit my feet they started singing
Of dustbowl days.

VERSE
O New York journeys
There were stories
Of a brown-eyed, curly headed girl
With mischief in her mouth
And it was my mom.
I rode your tractor
Like every cousin before and after
You were strong and tall beside me
And wise beyond the mortal draw.

CHORUS
I wore your planting shoes.
They started telling about you.
Too big to fit my feet they started singing
Of dustbowl days.

BRIDGE
When the leaves turn upside down
There?s sure to come a storm around.
I ain?t seen that for days.
What?ll we do with all that rain?!
Keep your head to the ground,
And your hand to the weed, and
Your heart full of need.
O don?t forget!
You have mouths to feed
So you go.

VERSE
Do you dream of England where your fathers met and married?
But you were a boy in Union County.
The voice through the river ?Reids.?
Older than the old oak trees.
That?s what you?ve come to mean to me
The heritage of East Tennessee.