I've got kin folks in Carolina.
That's the place to find my family tree.
They're scattered from a little north of Georgia
to a little bit east of East Tennessee.
But there's a little lump of sugar up by Asheville
who really ain't no kin to me at all.
But I'm going to buy her a wedding ring,
get me a ticket on the New River train,
and make her my closest kin folks after all.
I've got kin folks in Carolina.
Aunt Molly comes from Raleigh in the sea.
I've got cousins
by the dozen down in Charlotte.
And my grandpa fought for Robert E. Lee. But there's a little
gal on top of old Smokey with a soothing
sort of a little old southern drawl.
I'm going to tie the
knot with that southern bell,
tell all the world with a rebel yell she'll be my closest kin folks
after all.
She'll be my closest kin folks after all.