I See It Lyrics

Lay me down in the cold home ground

Of Eastern Kentucky when I die

Don't shed a tear, for I won't be here

You'll find me in the stars that shine at night

I spent my younger days dreaming of leaving

Riding on a coal train out of town

What I'd give to have just one chance

To ride that train to back then now

I see it

The one room wooden house where mamaw went to school

The white church on the hill where I learned the Golden Rule

Those days are gone, never to return

But in my heart, their recollections ever burn

I see it, oh I see it

If you look around my new hometown

We'd agree it seems I've got it good

But it can't replace the memories made

In that emerald hillside holler neighborhood

I drive down 55 all the way to Freedom

I'd take Church Road and turn right back around

But in my heart that's never where I'm going

In my mind I'm Shelbiana bound

I see it

The swinging bridge that crossed big Sandy River

Christmas, Easter, and those Sunday dinners

Those days are gone, never to return

But in my heart, their recollections ever burn

I see it, oh I see it

I see it

The smell of honeysuckle on the vine

The taste of homemade blackberry wine

Those days are gone, never to return

But in my heart, their recollections ever burn

I see it, oh I see it

Lay me down in the cold home ground

Of Eastern Kentucky when I die