Kudzu Lyrics

I went home last year

And the kudzu was growing o'er

My old hometown

All covered in green

Caroline my dear

Oh to look now, you'd hardly know her

The pleasantest mount

You'd ever seen

You can't go home again, I know that now

I learned that lesson

From the vine that ate the South

Greatest of storms

O Hugo, what catastrophe

You ravaged ten years

Before the first breath I drew

On the day I was born

In a city sinking into the sea

My father fears

He's sinking there too

You can't go home again, I know that now

I learned that lesson

From the tide that swept the South

When the Ravenel Bridge folds

And the cotton fields all dry

And the steeples of old

Crash down from on high

They'll paint o'er the signs

For 26 East leads nowhere now

And there in the vines

They'll lay me down

You can't go home again, I know that now

I learned that lesson

From the tides and vines

And the crooked lines

And the sun that shines on the South