Buddy Jewell - Sweet Southern Comfort

Buddy Jewell was a flash in the pan, but what a flash it was.  As the winner of the first season of Nashville Star, he recorded his eponymous album in ten days.  While One In A Row may be the finest song on the album (musically speaking), Sweet Southern Comfort always captured the "sentimental favorite" category for us.

We'd only moved from Georgia to Massachusetts a couple years before, and were finding that we were still missing the southland.  Buddy Jewell captured that feeling perfectly in this song.

Now that we're back, and settling in, it still captures the sentimental longing that we'd suffered all those years.  It's good to be back.



Sweet Southern Comfort (Songwriters: Rodney Clawson, Brad Crisler)

Misty sunrise in my hometown,
Rows of cotton bout knee high,
Mrs. Baker down the dirt road,
Still got clothes out on the line,

Erwin Nichols there with Judge Lee,
Playin' checkers at the gin,
When I dream about the southland,
This is where it all begins

From Carolina down to Georgia,
Smell the jasmine and magnolia,
Sleepy Sweet home Alabama,
Roll tide roll,
Muddy water, Mississippi,
Blessed Graceland whispers to me,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort carry on,

Catchin' catfish on the river,
Chasin' fireflies by the creek,
Kissin' Gary Williams sister,
On the porch Homecoming week,

With rusty cars and weeping willows,
Keepin' watch out in the yard,
Just a snapshot of downhome Dixie,
Could be anywhere you are,

In Carolina or in Georgia,
Open arms are waitin' for ya,
Louisiana, Yellow Rose of San Antone,
Arkansas, Mississippi,
Old man river whispers to me,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort carry on,

As I sit here I'm surrounded,
By these priceless memories,
I don't have to think about it,
There's no place I'd rather be,

In Carolina or in Georgia,
Smell the jasmine and magnolia,
Sleepy Sweet home Alabama,
Roll tide roll,
Muddy water, Mississauga,
Blessed Graceland whispers to me,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort,
Carry on, Carry on,
Sweet Southern Comfort carry on