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 APPALACHIAN SUMMER 
Mark Elliott & Mickey Justice

Lately I've been feeling down got to leave this big old town 
Get my feet back on the ground where no one knows me 
Gonna' lose my cares in that sweet mountain air 
And when the sun goes down 

The river will sing her song to me, a midnight mountain melody 
The Nightingales add harmony from their home among the branches 
In the trees on the hills, by the road along the way 
To a brand new day 

   It's an Appalachian summer on a narrow two lane road 
   That winds through the mountains 
   Where the hills are tied in heather'd locks 
   And the water flows over weathered rocks 
   And a gentle breeze will kiss the trees just in passing 
   An Appalachian summer 

The summer sky is almost gone, gotta' turn around and head for home 
But I'll be back before too long, where the wind will take me 
Down in the valley and up through the pines 
To an old friend of mine  

   An Appalachian summer on a narrow two-lane road 
   That winds through the mountains 
   Where the hills are tied in heather'd locks 
   The water flows over weathered rocks 
   And a gentle breeze will kiss the trees just in passing 
   An Appalachian summer 

©1992 Bluewater Music Corp. BMI/Mickey Justice Music

Written in 1992 with Mark's good pal, and uber-musician, Mickey Justice, after the two spend headed off to Grandfather Mountain for the Highland Games. The song was born somewhere in between the Ceili's (a traditional Scottish party,) the midnight mountainside jamming (complete with bagpipes, whistles, and way too much scotch) and the boys screaming across the beautiful Blueridge Parkway in a truck with questionable brakes. You can hear it all in this Celtic-themed summer song.   

For more information on Mickey, and his equally talented son Keagan, visit the following Facebook pages:

Mickey
https://www.facebook.com/mickey.justice.9?fref=nf

Keagan
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007049026599