Country Mile

(© 2001 C. Townsend & D. Parker, Wild GinSang Music, BMI)


With Irish eyes and hair down long
she is beauty soft but strong.
She will not stand for being wronged
by men who come on too strong.

Hope is the song she sings,
sunlight is her smile,
lightly go her footsteps
as she walks a country mile.

Not so many years ago
the road seemed dark and long.
then she reached inside herself
and found another song.

She would not give her hope away,
she would not lose her smile,
she held her head up, walking tall
for a long, long country mile.

Then one night ‘neath the August moon
they met to the music of a fiddler’s tune,
love came a callin’, oh so soon
now they walk a country mile.

Hope is the song she sings,
sunlight is her smile,
lightly go her footsteps
as she walks a country mile;
now they walk a country mile.


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