I Wonder

Sometimes I think about you

Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinkin' 'bout me

And would you even recognize

The woman that your little girl has grown up to be

'Cause I look in the mirror and all I see

Are your brown eyes looking back at me

They're the only thing you've ever gave to me

At all

Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California

There's sunny skies as far as I can see

If you ever come back home to Carolina

I wonder what you'd say to me

I think about how it ain't fair

That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do

You weren't around to cheer me on

Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do

Did you think I didn't need you here

To hold my hand, to dry my tears?

Did you even miss me through the years at all?

Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California

There's sunny skies as far as I can see

If you ever come back home to Carolina

I wonder what you'd say to me

Forgiveness is such a simple word

But it's so hard to do

When you've been hurt

Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California

And just in case you're wonderin' about me

From now on, I won't be in Carolina

Your little girl is off, your little girl is off

Your little girl is off to Tennessee