Where the Pines Whisper

[Verse]
Backroads twist through fields of green
Where the pines whisper secrets unseen
Old barns creak
Tales untold
In the morning light
The stories unfold
[Verse 2]
Tobacco leaves drying in the sun
Rivers run through where time begun
Gravel paths lead to nowhere fast
Ghosts of the mill
They never passed
[Chorus]
It's where the heart beats slow and steady
Mountains rise and the folks are ready
From the blue ridge to the ocean's sway
North Carolina’s where I'll stay
[Verse 3]
Sweet tea on a porch swing sways
Cicadas sing in the summer haze
Church bells echo in the morning light
Children laugh as day turns night
[Verse 4]
Fields of cotton beneath a southern sky
Grandma's wisdom as the years drift by
Old-time tunes on a fiddle's string
Makes my spirit rise
Hear the banjo ring
[Chorus]
It's where the heart beats slow and steady
Mountains rise and the folks are ready
From the blue ridge to the ocean's sway
North Carolina’s where I'll stay