Mitch Sneed at Large

I don’t know what it is about snow and ice that make me think of Charlie Daniels, but it does.
We are enjoying our first winter weather of the season in Culpeper and it made me think of my best friend Jeff Shockley and me driving through the snow singing Charlie Daniels’ “Carolina – I remember you.”
Check out the lyrics and you’ll know what I mean.

“The first things I remember are frosty Carolina mornings with a cherry fire
crackling in my mommas big black wood cook stove

I remember snow flakes as big as goose feathers and the moon the color of new
made country butter and a night sky like diamonds against black velvet reaching
from horizon to horizon

I remember when the biggest problems in my barefoot life were sand spurs and
red ant hills

I remember sitting with my Granddaddy on the front porch and watching the last
of that magnificent southern sun bleed away into the twilight sky

I remember Sunday school and kneeling at the cross and trying to imagine what
God looked like Sunday dinner short pants hair cuts and a little puppy my
Daddy brought home to me and I remember love

I remember steam puffing fire breathing awesome 10-wheel locomotives and the
conductor’s watch looked as big as one of my Grandmother’s biscuits

I remember my mother smiling in a red and white checkered dress and Christmas
always seemed so far away yes I remember you Carolina grand old lady if the
south—I remember you as home.”

I love that song. Life was simple when I was a kid and you have to wish that you could return to those days. I think I’ll fix some soup and curl up with a book and just listen to a CD. Where is my copy of Charlie’s “Epic Trilogy?