Miss the Mississippi

WV2151/2025

Watercolour & coloured pencils on Steinbach paper.

 

"I'm growing tired of this big city lights

Tired of the glamour and tired of the sights

In all my dreams I'm roaming once more

Back to my home on the old river shore

 

I am sad and weary far away from home

Miss the Mississippi and you

Days are dark and dreary everywhere I roam

Miss the Mississippi and you

 

Roaming the wide world over

Always alone and blue, so blue

Nothing seems to cheer me

Under heaven's dome

Miss the Mississippi and you

 

Memories are bringing

Happy days of your

Miss the Mississippi and you

Mockingbirds are singing

'Round the cabin door

Miss the Mississippi and you

 

Roaming the wide world over

Always alone and blue, so blue

Longing for my homeland

Muddy water shore

Miss the Mississippi and you

 

Yo-de-lee-ooo-lei, yo-de-lee-ooo-lei

Mississippi and you..."

 

MISS THE MISSISSIPPI AND YOU - Crystal Gayle, 1979.

 

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