Name: My Appalachian Girl
Duration: P00H03M59S
Description: Some of the difficulties associated with raising teenagers, girls in this case. The picture is taken on the top of a ridge going over the Appalachians from Tennessee to North Carolina. And just as we hit the state line, believe me, James Taylor came on the radio singing Carolina in My Mind. It was a magic moment.

My Appalachian Girl

from The Tales Of Grimmer Pardon by Paul Gerard Dalton

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Some of the difficulties associated with raising teenagers, girls in this case. The picture is taken on the top of a ridge going over the Appalachians from Tennessee to North Carolina. And just as we hit the state line, believe me, James Taylor came on the radio singing Carolina in My Mind. It was a magic moment.

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Driving through Tennessee with my Appalachian girl
one or two things I want to see with my Appalachian girl
sitting back seat of the car
shining like a union star
looking like she'll attack
and put some stripes across my back
she feels a prisoner of the road
my Appalachian girl

Baseball cap hides both her eyes my Appalachian girl
that glint like Clint's as someone dies my Appalachian girl
Each day it's when are we going home
without her friends she's all alone
she can't use her mobile phone
all she does is mope and groan
a prisoner of the road
my Appalachian girl

Thirteen years thinks she's twenty five my Appalachian girl
In the car she says just drive my Appalachian girl
she only shrugs when we want to talk
she won't get out and have a walk
she wants to be free as a hawk
but she's just leggy like a stork
a prisoner of the road
my Appalachian girl

Those teenage years are hard to bear my Appalachian girl
Mum and Dad just don't care my Appalachian girl
we put you up in the best hotel
all you did was ring the bell
your bad mood did not dispel
at breakfast time you did not feel well
a prisoner of the road
my Appalachian girl

It's the trip of a lifetime
over mountains to the sea
I keep throwing you a lifeline
a ice cream here and there
a Tennessee cream tea

You're going through your changes my Appalachian girl
we've lost our little baby my Appalachian girl
you walk on water and don't sink down
never fear that you will drown
kill your Dad with a deadly frown
usurp the family and take the crown
a prisoner of the road
my Appalachian girl.

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from The Tales Of Grimmer Pardon, released January 1, 2023

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Paul Gerard Dalton London, UK

Singer songwriter, poet, lyricist, anecdotalist, with Irish, Scots and north of England roots. Lives in west London. Recent published poetry 2024, Fielding Memories: Poems and Other Recalls.

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