Selma Drye

Album: The Woman I Am (2013)
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  • My great grandma's name was Selma Drye
    Everybody tell me I got her hazel eyes
    It turn Carolina blue when I cry
    And that's alright with me

    She kept a 38 special and a can of snuff
    In the pocket of her rip in case something came up
    She grew up ragged and she grew up rough
    The way she had been

    I know so much she'd be proud of me
    'Cause I'm the only apple on the tree
    That didn't hit the ground
    And sit down in the mud

    But she's up in heaven raising hell
    And if I can stand up by myself
    It's 'cause her gunpowder's running through my blood
    And when I die put me in the ground beside, Selma Drye

    Folks round town, they said she was neat
    But never saw the woman I've seen
    Never even touched a washing machine
    And hung everything on the line

    Kept the peaches and her money in a can and jar
    Never owned a TV or drove a car
    That stuff don't make you what you are
    She used to say that all the time

    I know so much she'd be proud of me
    'Cause I'm the only apple on the tree
    That didn't hit the ground
    And sit down in the mud

    But she's up in heaven raising hell
    And if I can stand up by myself
    It's 'cause her gunpowder's running through my blood
    And when I die put me in the ground beside, Selma Drye

    I still got her words of wisdom playing in my head
    And her old beat-up Bible's on my night stand by my bed

    I know so much she'd be proud of me
    'Cause I'm the only apple on the tree
    That didn't hit the ground
    And sit down in the mud

    But she's up in heaven raising hell
    And if I can stand up by myself
    It's 'cause her gunpowder's running through my blood
    And when I die put me in the ground beside,
    When I die just put me in the ground beside, Selma Drye

    Selma Drye Writer/s: BILLY MONTANA, KELLIE PICKLER, PHILLIP LAMMONDS
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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