Pie-Supper Summer

Blueberry and cherry, and home-made apple pie,
Country girls bake them, the apple of your eye;
Each pie s got a number which one will you choose?
Look at all those country girls, looking right at you.

It s a Pie-Supper Summed, in Nineteen and Thirty-Eight,
Down at the school house you know you can t be late;
Lemonade and coffee, wash that pie right down;
Your friends and your neighbors, from the hills and from the town.

It s a Pie-Supper Summer, in the Ozark mountain hills,
Mighty big appetite--you know you re going to get your fill;
It s a Pie-Supper Summer in ht Ozark mountain hills:
You can shut your eyes& you can see that picture still.

Billy brings along his Gene Autry, Sears guitar,
He likes Tex Ritter, and those cowboy picture stars;
Bill buys a pie prepared by Becky Lou
Look at all those young folks& sneaking off two-by-two!

Becky. She says Now Billy, I think we d better get hitched soon
I can see Daddy s shotgun reflecting the Ozark moon!
So they get married down in Arkansas, late one Saturday
Billy s dropping out of school& now he s baling hay.

Pearl Harbor comes along in December of Forty-One
On an Okinawa Beach, Billy tests out his M-1 gun
His mama gets a Gold Star and he never got to know his kid,
And Becky, she don t say nothing& she keeps those feelings hid.

And you know that Time, Time, Time has a way of adjusting
All your dreams,
And the years, keep right on flowing
Like an Ozark mountain stream.

Becky lives in Springfield in a high-rise all alone,
And her son performs in Branson, in a theater all his own;
On Decoration Day she puts a wreath on a hero s grave,
And she shuts her eyes and looks at yesterday.

It s a Pie-Supper Summer, in the Ozark mountain hills,
Mighty big appetite, you know you re going to get your fill,
It s a Pie-Supper Summer, in the Ozark mountain hills
You can shut your eyes& you can see that picture still.

Blueberry and cherry, and home-made apple pie;
Country girls bake them, the apple of your eye;
Each pie s got a number which one will you chose?
Look at all those country girls, looking right at you.
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