Rocky Mountain Belle by Heather Jackson

I did the guitar and all the vocals on this one. The words were written about six years ago by my father, Robert G. Berry, and I put it to music for me and my sisters back when we were "The Berrypickers", a bluegrass band. It's about my great, great Grandmother, Ida Jane Lindsay. Yup, that is my 5 year old daughter in the background, I try to get her to not come in.. but once I saw the video I thought she was so cute, so I kept it. Rocky Mountain Belle Copyright 2001 Robert G Berry, Heather L Jackson Your daddy fought the war that divided this great nation But when the cause was finally lost he returned to his plantation But life was never quite the same, things had come to such a mess So he packed up his family and rode the train out west CHORUS: Ida Jane, my Ida Jane Do you dream of the the south where magnolias fill the lane now you are high up in the mountains were cactus blossum in the dell And you will ever be known as the Rocky Mountain Belle The weather's hot and dry and you hate the wind to blow the folks 'round here are not the same as the folks you used to know The work is hard and dirty and it never seems to end Do you dream of Carolina, to be a southern belle again? Now you have a great stone house and children of your own There's little time for places past, forgotten days of old Except on quiet evenings with breezes that are cool and sweet and mild You think back to the happy days, when you were just a child. Repeat Chorus

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YouTube | November 30, 2007

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