Carolina - home of that Englishman
Who built this old wagon behind my home
That's still standing in the tall grass
Yeah, it was built to last
It made it all those miles over wood and stone
Hard oak and solid steel
A strong heart on iron wheels
His name was Levingood
He burned his name in the wood
Then sold it to a dealer up in Chapel Hill
Then a young family named Pendergast
Gave that man all their cash
And headed for the Ohio
On the Wilderness Road
Carolina was your home
But your destination was unknown
Built a farm on Kentucky grass
Man that land filled up fast
Then it was onto Missouri full of blacksmith tools
There a man named Murphy mused
How it pulled powder kegs and fuse
Then he made the best wagons for the emigrant trails
Down the line to Chimney Rock
And a Fort Laramie Stop
Where it hauled big-eyed miners to Alder Gulch
Then out on the Bozeman Road
Red Cloud lighted it's load
And rolled it down a hill into Rosebud Creek
That wagon set along that prairie stream
Until 1933
When a sodbuster wanted all of that ground
Then back in '75
My old man brought it back alive
Then set it back down
And let the prairie heal ... let it heal
Who built this old wagon behind my home
That's still standing in the tall grass
Yeah, it was built to last
It made it all those miles over wood and stone
Hard oak and solid steel
A strong heart on iron wheels
His name was Levingood
He burned his name in the wood
Then sold it to a dealer up in Chapel Hill
Then a young family named Pendergast
Gave that man all their cash
And headed for the Ohio
On the Wilderness Road
Carolina was your home
But your destination was unknown
Built a farm on Kentucky grass
Man that land filled up fast
Then it was onto Missouri full of blacksmith tools
There a man named Murphy mused
How it pulled powder kegs and fuse
Then he made the best wagons for the emigrant trails
Down the line to Chimney Rock
And a Fort Laramie Stop
Where it hauled big-eyed miners to Alder Gulch
Then out on the Bozeman Road
Red Cloud lighted it's load
And rolled it down a hill into Rosebud Creek
That wagon set along that prairie stream
Until 1933
When a sodbuster wanted all of that ground
Then back in '75
My old man brought it back alive
Then set it back down
And let the prairie heal ... let it heal