Oh Red earth of South Carolina
Call me back from where I've been
I've been gone for three whole weeks now
And my mind's entranced
With Dixie winds all through your forests
Bouncing from your basement ferns
Ask your pines to hold me closer
In their bows of mirth
With dreams of silent children lovers
Hanging high above your hills
Oh red earth of South Carolina
Call me back again
When you were young you were rambunctious
All your family asked you why
"When I die," you kindly told them
"I wanna see the sun,"
So you left and quietly loved me
Taking with you all your kin
But you were blind oh South Carolina
Cold and harsh and thin
Get on back you South Carolina
Go on home to find your sun
With your mother he's been prayin'
To the god you lost
"You were young angry and foolish,"
He will say when you walk in
"Where you go my South Carolina
With you I have been,"
Oh red earth of South Carolina
Call me back from where I've been
I've been gone for three whole weeks now
And my mind's entranced
With Dixie winds all through your forests
Bouncing from your basement ferns
Ask your pines to hold me closer
In their bows of mirth