Cicadas singing
in the promised land
Cornbread cooking
in a butter pan
Daddy's outside teaching Tommy
how to be a man
Oh yeah
Nanny's on the porch
in her rocking chair
Pinky blue curlers
in her silver hair
Get drunk on the smell
of honeysuckle hanging
in the air
Oh yeah
Out there in the county
past the service signal line
Pavement turns to red clay
You can hear the crickets cry
Both feet in the water
Let the current
take the lead
Sweet southern summer
Truck bed sipping
on a Georgia shine
Catfish biting
on a braided line
Bonfire burning
good 'a way to pine
Mighty fine mighty fine
Out there in the county
past the service signal line
Pavement turns to red clay
You can hear the crickets cry
Both feet in the water
Let the current
take the lead
Sweet southern summer
Southern summer
Sweet southern summer
Highway help me
Won't you take me
through the road
up to Mossack Creek
Save my soul
take me home
Back to where
my roots run deep
Highway help me
Won't you take me
through the road
up to Mossack Creek
Save my soul
take me home
Back to where
my roots run deep
Out there in the county
past the service signal line
Pavement turns to red clay
You can hear the crickets cry
Both feet in the water
Let the current
take the lead
Sweet southern summer
Southern summer
Sweet southern summer
