I Wonder

Sometimes I think about you

Wondering if you're out there somewhere thinking 'bout me

And would you even recognize

The woman that your little girl has grown up to be?

'Cause I look in the mirror and all I see

Are your brown eyes looking back at me

They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all

Though I hear the weather's nice in California

There are sunny skies as far as I can see

If you ever come back home to Carolina

I wonder what you'd say to me

I think about how it ain't fair

That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do

You weren't around to cheer me on

Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do

Did you think I didn't need you here

To hold my hand? To dry my tears?

Did you even miss me through the years at all?

Though I hear the weather's nice in California

There are sunny skies as far as I can see

If you ever come back home to Carolina

I wonder what you'd say to me

Forgiveness is such a simple word

But it's so hard to do when you've been hurt

Though I hear the weather's nice in California

Just in case you're wondering about me

From now on I won't be in Carolina

Your little girl is off

Your little girl is off

Your little girl is off to Tennessee