Wild Azaleas

I grew up on the back end of the county My kinfolks weren't too far away I worked the fields with Mother and Daddy Nearly broke my back haulin' peanut hay Won't you carry me to the only home I've ever known It's been too long since I've walked through that door I long to see the face of my mother And smell those sweet wild azaleas once more No one saw me in the night while I was leaving They've never known just why I left I'd be so ashamed if they saw how I was livin' If they never find me it's prob'ly for the best Won't you carry me to the only home I've ever known It's been too long since I've walked through that door I long to see the face of my mother And smell those sweet wild azaleas once more Sometimes I wonder 'bout my baby sister She's prob'ly a lady by now All these years I've been living like a drifter She prob'ly wouldn't recognize me now Won't you carry me to the only home I've ever known It's been too long since I've walked through that door I long to see the face of my mother And smell those sweet wild azaleas once more If I never make it back to see my mother I hope to see her in Heaven one day Write "WAYWARD SON HAS COME HOME" on my tombstone And plant sweet wild azaleas on my grave Won't you carry me to the only home I've ever known It's been too long since I've walked through that door I long to see the face of my mother And smell those sweet wild azaleas once more