Appalachian Mountain Memories
    written by Thomas Long/Mike Bryant
( BMI# 25860698 )
(key of D

When I go through those mountains
I'm travelin' back in time
To a place where I was born and raised
A simple place where life was fine
We lived in a cabin
Just on the back of Heartbreak Ridge
Our nearest neighbor lived just down
         the road
Ten miles just across the bridge

(Chorus)
Appalachian memories
They keep running through my mind
Life was hard and all we had
Was lots of love to pass the time
Our roof would leak in the autumn
          rains
In the winters we were cold
But as I look back now
At the love we shared
It's those memories I hold

(Musical Break)

I remember dad in his beat up Ford
Runnin' shine through Devil's Hills
But we were poor
All the cash we had
Was what he made from his 
        homemade still
It may have been wrong
But daddy kept us fed
So we'd grow up to find our place
And the time came we all left behind
The love of that old home place

(Chorus)
Appalachian memories
They keep running through my mind
Life was hard and all we had
Was lots of love to pass the time
Our roof would leak in the autumn
          rains
In the winters we were cold
But as I look back now
At the love we shared
It's those memories I hold

But as I look back now
At the love we shared
It's those memories I hold