North Carolina lightning, silver threads across the sky.
North Carolina lightning, thunder rolls from up on high.
Light my way down the highway though the rain is pouring down,
Come the morning I’ll be home in the mountains that I love.
Six-thirty-five in the evening, and the sky is black and gray,
Caressed in the tops of the mountains,
Aww, these clouds are here to stay.
How the winds through the valley, shake the trees against the sky.
It can’t shake the vow that told me to keep rolling down the road.
~~~Break~~~ … (Tag the break with) … And the rain is pouring down.
I see my foolish life flash before me, All the roads that I’ve traveled,
All the hills that I’ve climbed and I wonder why I ever went away.
In an hour I’ll be coming home to stay, coming home to stay.
North Carolina lightning, silver threads across the sky.
Show me the way to tomorrow, as my home is drawing nigh.
Don’t let me ever think of leaving, steer me home if I try.
Come the morning I’ll be home in the mountains that I love.
~~~~~Break~~~~~
Don’t let me ever think of leaving, steer me home if I try.
Come the morning I’ll be home in the mountains that I love.
My Carolina home, in my Carolina home.
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Lyrics submitted by JP Johnson.