So many things you've seen So many stories long forgotten So many deeds between Shouting out across the bottom Beneath a ghostly twilight Her bosom filled with shining stars Her secrets sing down through the ages As bright as lightning bugs in jars All beneath the canopy of ageless oaks whose secrets keep Forever in her beauty This island is my home Her rolling hills by hands were built by natives who were never found The only hints left of their pa**ing
are ancient shells that ghost the ground Bone white they tell a story of all the slaves who graced her shores of cotton fields so long plowed under a jungle now upon her stores All beneath the canopy of ageless oaks whose secrets keep Forever in her beauty This island is my home All beneath the canopy of ageless oaks whose secrets keep Forever in her beauty, ah in her beauty This island is my home