Southern Zen (the Mockingbird Song) 3:20
03:20Lyrics
I chopped wood
I carried water
I burned the wood
Just to boil the water
Threw in some collards,
And some fatback ham
Made up a little corn bread
In the frying pan
Fried up some okra
Made some black-eyed peas
Brewed about a gallon
Of sweet iced tea
Took it out to the front porch,
Sat in the swing
Closed my eyes, let the day go by,
And I listened to the mockingbird sing
*CHORUS*
*The mockingbird he's a funny looking bird
Just an ordinary grey
The mockingbird don't do much as a bird
He just sits around all day
The mockingbird ain't a pretty bird,
There's no bright colors in his wings
But everybody stops what they're doing
When he sing, sing, sings*
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Yellow sand, and bright red clay
Come together In a beautiful way
From the longleaf pines
To that flat, flat land
It looks like heaven from where I stand
It's where I was born
And where I was raised
I know the people
And I know their ways
From Pensacola
To the Florida Keys
You can close your eyes Let the day go by
And listen to the Mockingbird sing
*CHORUS*