One Mississippi

Fertile fields
Of flatlands and hills
Raise 'bout anything
Whatever a farmer can dream

Slugburger, shrimp boil
Catfish fried up in oil
Oh, good gosh almighty
Just 'a husk a hot tamale
Now that's Mississippi

America's music birthplace
Where rock n roll was made
Out of our gospel and blues
And that pure country tune

O' authors and poets
So profoundly stoic
An imagination of a child
Let their words run wild
Come on now
Now that's Mississippi

I say
One Mississippi there's a magnolia tree
Two Mississippi
Where a mockingbird sings
Out on its limb
Whistling that sweet soulful hymn
I say
Three Mississippi to this land called home
I'll breathe Mississippi
'Til I'm dead and gone
Just carry on
Ahh carry on
Mississippi

We survived hurricanes
Know them by name
Rose above the flood
Built a wall
Of its own mud

And come Sunday mornin'
We profess our faith
With "Near the Cross"
And its "Amazing Grace"
Now that's Mississippi

I say
One Mississippi there's a magnolia tree
Two Mississippi
Where a mockingbird sings
Out on its limb

Whistling that sweet soulful hymn... I say
Three Mississippi to this land called home
I'll breathe Mississippi
'Til I'm dead and gone
Just carry on
Ahh carry on
Mississippi

'Round here's where the Muppets grew up
And potters and artists
Inspired all of us

There're kudzu walls
And fall football
A gulf coast sunset
And a delta dawn

It's simple nights
A smile on a face
Takin' that peaceful drive
Down the Natchez Trace

And our ol' man river
Lavish lakes and streams
Pines full of the wildest life
And possibilities
That's Mississippi

Now Jackson
Is some kind of centerpiece
On a most celebrated table
Of hospitality
And ain't it funny how the world has come to count it seems
They're doin' it everywhere
It's not just one, two, three

We're
One Mississippi
Where there's a magnolia tree
Two Mississippi
While a mockingbird sings
Out on its limb
Oh, and what a sweet soulful hymn
I say
Three Mississippi
To this land called home
I'll bleed Mississippi
'Til I'm dead and gone
Won't you carry on
Ahh carry on
Mississippi

Mississippi
Mississippi