Aberdeen - Della Mae

There is a tree, flowers in spring

White cherry buds, 22 rings

I helped her grow, but have never seen

Carolina winter or Aberdeen

From the Missisippi

Floodgates my body churned

Up the river delta my mother yearned

To taste the sweetness of her pain

Fallin down in Carolina rain

And if I stay ill stay today

My body has followed in her wake

If I m to go, Ill go away

To Aberdeen

And there ill wait

She stayed by the sea

Hardened town

Smell of fish watered down

Taste of liquor on her mouth

And her heart it wandered down to the south

And if I stay ill stay today

My body has followed in her wake

If I m to go, Ill go away

To Aberdeen

And there ill wait

Her body is now

Hard from the years

She s still as strong

Still as fierce

I ve taken all she had to give

And given back the will to live

And if I stay ill stay today

My body has followed in her wake

If I m to go, Ill go away

To Aberdeen

And there ill wait