Appalachian Blue

Tonight I can't sleep even though I've closed my eyes

I don't count sheep so I'll just lie here counting railroad ties

Along the tracks that take me back to the place that I once knew

Where the mountains meet the sky in shades of Appalachian Blue

Appalachian Blue is the color of the water

That tumbles down the hillside past the house that was our home

Appalachian Blue was the cotton dress you bought me

And the feeling that I got when you were gone

It's a bluetick hound that's howling underneath an old blue moon

And the lonesome notes that linger from a bluegrass fiddle tune

It's the blue in my eyes from missing you

Appalachian Blue

I wake up and realize that I can't go back home

And even if I went back now I'd still be all alone

'Cause your love's nothing more than just a dream I hold on to

And these empty arms are proof you left me Appalachian Blue

Appalachian Blue is the color of the water

That tumbles down the hillside past the house that was our home

Appalachian Blue was the cotton dress you bought me

And the feeling that I got when you were gone

It's a bluetick hound that's howling underneath an old blue moon

And the lonesome notes that linger from a bluegrass fiddle tune

It's the blue in my eyes from missing you

Appalachian Blue

Appalachian Blue is the color of the water

That tumbles down the hillside past the house that was our home

Appalachian Blue was the cotton dress you bought me

And the feeling that I got when you were gone

It's a bluetick hound that's howling underneath an old blue moon

And the lonesome notes that linger from a bluegrass fiddle tune

It's the blue in my eyes from missing you

Appalachian Blue

It's the blue in my eyes from missing you

Appalachian Blue

Appalachian Blue