North Carolina Nights

The moon over Polecat Creek,

Merry in the month of May;

The reflection a white streak

Across the water to display.

 

North Carolina nights to tell,

Croaking frogs and a whippoorwill;

Like Alice in Wonderland swell,

Yeah, for me this state fits the bill.

 

But instead of Polecat Creek

With the full moon oh so bright;

It's that Cheshire cat jowl to cheek

With that toothy grin I have in sight.

 

My imagination running wild

In North Carolina nights to tell;

Where Cheshire cat moons have smiled

And polecats you can't even smell.

 

Now broadleaf tobacco I surely know

For I've been to Raleigh and Winston-Salem,

But at Polecat Creek in time so slow;

What's this thin leaf stuff I've been inhaling?

 

Oh yeah, North Carolina nights of mine

And your moon so very beguiling;

It don't matter for whatever the shine,

You keep this cat forever smiling.