Memories & Dreams

Donna Hughes

I used to see my Daddy every day

He used to race me in the Carolina sun

Back when he was a young man

And he could plow the fields until the day was done

Mama played piano for the choir

Every Sunday afternoon she cooked my favorite things

After church we rode a dozen miles

On old forgotten pathways, now overgrown with trees

Chorus: Home is not the same place that it was

Time goes by andchanges everything

I left so many things behind me

My favorite things I took away

Were my memories and my dreams

Everything I rode would fly

In the woods by the river, and through the fields of hay

Stirring dust and making noise

Across a homemade finish line now lost and gone away

Remember that old dog we used to have

Laying on the front porch when it rained

Sometimes I really miss my old best friend

Buried over in the field where we used to play

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