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Video production by Robert Clarke
Song recorded and mixed by Rick Ott
"Roots"
Written by Allison Clarke
It’s just a one-room schoolhouse down on Little Cat Road
It’s just names on the chalkboard written long ago
It’s a man one house down who holds that key
Keeps it up for the reunion each spring
It’s just a blown-up Kodak colored black and white
Of a man in uniform about to take flight
It’s a wife and kids that followed him overseas
Supporting the American dream
I’m getting down to the stories holding up the place I stand
Just like seeds sown in the ground with loving hands
I’m getting down to the live oaks and backroads
From Macon to Birmingham
I’m getting down to the roots of who I am
It’s just a one-bedroom apartment off the interstate
It’s a woman in the world trying to make her way
It’s a man that followed her with a diamond ring
That kind that changes everything
No, you don’t gotta dig too deep
To find a little history
There’s something ‘bout that southern ground
That makes me come alive
It’s an old church pew and a book of hymns
It’s over 60 years together singing them
It’s a promise made in sickness and in health
And all the weight that promise held