Lyr Add: Tall Carolina Pines (Kim Wallach)

13 Aug 00 - 09:20 AM (#276797)
Subject: Lyr Add: TALL CAROLINA PINES (Kim Wallach)
From: Auxiris

Hello, everyone. Came across this song in a collection of songs jotted down on odd bits of paper, menus, napkins, etc., forgotton for. . . well, let's say a long time in a neglected drawer. I had noted at the time that Kim Wallach sang it, but I have no idea if she wrote it or not. Can anyone set me straight? Thanks!

cheers,

Aux

TALL CAROLINA PINES (from the singing of Kim Wallach)

My love and I first met when we were only nine
We'd play catch and hide and seek in the tall tall Carolina pines

Like coffee was his skin his eyes were dark and fine
Needles in his curly hair from the tall tall Carolina pines
At sixteen I was told stick to your own kind
Stay away from the brownskin boy and the tall tall Carolina pines

Still we met every day near the old tobacco sign
We'd chew grass and tell our dreams 'neath the tall tall Carolina pines

The wind still blows in the trees sun and the moon still shine
White men still lynch honest black men in the tall tall Carolina pines

They tore him from my arms and with their rope of twine
They hanged him from the strongest branch of the tall tall Carolina pines

Well I left for Detroit I took only what was mine
And I never will go back again to the tall tall Carolina pines

Now it's been fifteen years but as I write these lines
I see him hanging once again from the tall tall Carolina ^^

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