'Fore I left to be a grown man way back then
 I miss the wooden kitchen floor
 Painted brown to match the old back door
 In my  old Kentucky home where I belong

 Carry me back
 Carry me back
 Carry me back I been away so long
 I'm goin' back where I come from

 Something I read one day
 Might have heard somebody say
 Made me leave a happy home
 Fortune waitin' in the city
 Pretty women just like in the movies
 Craziest mess you ever want to see

 Carry me back
 Carry me back
 Carry me back ain't nothin' here for me
 I wanna get back home
 Take me back where I belong

 Lord Almighty I sure learned a lot
 Enough to send me back where I come from
 To that old Kentucky home where I belong