Backyard In Kansas

[Chorus]
Sing a little song about our old backyard in Kansas
Just sing a little song to help remember me
Sing a little song about our old backyard in Kansas
Just send him home quickly 'cause I'm weepin' 'neath the cottonwood tree

[Verse 1]
Where you gone, it's so long
Since you've been around to stay
Though your room is just the same as it was then
Where you've gone and grown old
There ain't been a story or a tale to be told
Until Cory he done come to town
He just came along and I heard him singin' a song

[Chorus]
Sing a little song about our old backyard in Kansas
Just sing a little song to help remember me
Sing a little song about our old backyard in Kansas
Just send him home quickly 'cause I'm weepin' 'neath the cottonwood tree

[Verse 2]
It's so quiet every night
So many things they don't seem right
The old train it just don't come this way no more
I've been livin' in a sigh
Just a-watching the corn grow high
But there ain't nobody here to help Joe
He's just out there on his fields, he's workin' all alone
(Pick it, Jake)

[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 3]
And when Cory came through
Oh, deep within one of his blues
I heard tell of a trace of your name
Way up north where it's cold
Where there's land to be bought and sold
And I'm prayin' to the saints that it's the same
So I sent him along, I sent him out there just singin' a song

[Chorus]
Sing a little song about our old backyard in Kansas
Just sing a little song to help remember me
Sing a little song about our old backyard in Kansas (Kansas?)
Just send him home quickly 'cause I'm weepin' 'neath the cottonwood tree
Oh yeah
Just send him home quickly 'cause I'm weepin' 'neath the cottonwood tree