Tarheel, it sounds like this to me:

PUT ME ON THE TRAIL TO CAROLINA
Delmore Brothers

Left my cabin home, started out to roam.
Thought I didn't like it in the mountains.
Thought I'd like to stay in the city gay,
But it got the best of me.

CHORUS: Put me on trail to Carolina.
That is where I long to be,
Where the mountains high
Reachin' to [reach into?] the sky;
There my sweetie waits for me.
Hand in hand together in the twilight,
Strolling down the trail, we two,
Carolina girl, sweetest in the world,
Underneath the sky so blue.

That old dog of mine, let me hear him whine
When he smells a possum in the mountains.
Underneath the moon, let me hum a tune,
Strummin' on my old guitar. CHORUS

Gene