CC & The Creekboys: Music

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My childhood was great. There are no regrets to being born in that small rural area of the Appalachians. My dad, a coalminer, my mother, and six siblings, at times seem to be a dream of another life and day. As I'm growing older, I realize just how special it really was.

A muddy river's winding through the mountain cracks
Coal trains have dusted the river banks black
It's hard to make a dollar last a day
But in the eyes of a child it can go a long way

And I remember the creek boy blues
Hot summer days there was nothing to do
We were skinny dipping in a swirl hole pond
Skip school on Fridays we were scare to go home

And all these memories hold me so close
Rock me mother you're the one that I love most
Down through these valleys oh sun please stay
And shine your light upon the Appalachian way

You can smell wild flowers all the day long
Baptisms on Sunday the old graveyard songs
The King James bible the words in red
My daddy said that he believed every word it said

And all these memories hold me so close
Like the Father the Son and Holy Ghost
Down through these valleys oh sun please stay
And shine your light upon The Appalachian way

Blackberry vine well it's a copperhead den
But they're sweet and ripe like a young girlfriend
And I love this music it fills the mountain sky
It'll always be in my heart until the day I die

And all these memories hold me so close
The Carter Family and Bill Monroe
Down through these valleys oh sun please stay
And shine your light upon The Appalachian way

And all these memories hold me so close
Rock me mother you're the one that I love most
Down through these valleys oh son please stay
And shine your light upon the Appalachian way
Lord shine your light The Appalachian way