Summerville

Album: The Back Porch Sessions (2015)
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  • Running bare footed through the summertime
    White sheet drying on an old clothesline
    You'd say “Child wash your feet before you come inside to eat”

    I'd show up at the start of June
    cugust always came too soon
    cs we'd pull away in our four door
    You'd stand crying on the front porch

    chhhhh Highland cve.
    Oooooo I left too soon

    It'd take 22 years and a few left turns
    To get me back to where you were
    When love was still
    in Summerville
    I shed a tear and crack a smile
    When I let my mind wander down that country mile
    Where love is real
    In Summerville

    You'd take ham bone and flat green beans
    Turn a bare cupboard into a feast
    If we didn't have nothing you couldn't tell me,
    You always had my cherry ice cream
    You raised us all on kisses and honey
    Jesus and switches, Stretching money
    You knew God and you gave him to us
    We had you so we knew love

    chhhh Highland cve.
    Oooooo I left too soon

    It'd take 22 years and a few left turns
    To get me back to where you were
    When love was still
    in Summerville
    I shed a tear and crack a smile
    When I let my mind wander down that country mile
    Where love is real
    In Summerville

    There's an overgrown field where your flowers grew
    But there's a house but there's no you

    chhhh Highland cve.
    Oooooo I left too soon

    It'd take 22 years and a few left turns
    To get me back to where you were
    When love was still
    in Summerville

    I shed a tear and crack a smile
    When I let my mind wander down that country mile
    Where love is real
    In Summerville Publisher: MUSIC COPYRIGHT CONSULTANT GRP, RISSI PALMER-STYPMANN
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