Take me far across the wide Missoury

To reach where wild oak trees grow tall and slim

To little hillside farm in Hopewell County

Let me see my childhood playgroung once again

It's been a long time since I've seen my homeplace

Wonder if the trees still stand so tall

Wonder they remember how I'm climbing and swing upon the limbs when I was small

When I was just a child I played for hours

On the banks of Southport Creek not far away

Skipping rocks across the water walking barefoot through the meadow

Watching daddy work the fields of new mown hay

So take me far across the wide Missoury

To reach where wild oak trees grow tall and slim

Let me live again those happy childhood mem'ries

Let me see my childhood playground once again



Mom would always tell me don't go swimmin'

Son there's turtles in that water mean as sin

But I slipped far away behind the willows then as naked as jailbird I jumped in

So take me far across...

Oh let me see my childhood playground once again