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Sweet Home Carolina

Otis Claybrooke | July 22, 2026

[Verse 1]
Back roads cut like scars
Through the pine and clay
Grandma’s screen door stuck
Still held my day
I can taste that peach
On a July night
And your red dirt calling
Feels like right

[Pre-Chorus]
I been gone too long
Been running thin
Every mile I take
Pulls me back again
Got your river song
In my blood
Now I’m on my knees
For the place I love

[Chorus]
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you
Sweet home Carolina
I’m coming home for good
If I lost my way
You know what to do
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you

[Verse 2]
Mama’s old Ford truck
Still by the shed
Jameson jar on ice
And a prayer in my head
Blue crabs on the dock
Sunburn on my skin
Every broken road
Leads me back again

[Pre-Chorus]
I been gone too long
Been running thin
Every mile I take
Pulls me back again
Got your river song
In my blood
Now I’m on my knees
For the place I love

[Chorus]
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you
Sweet home Carolina
I’m coming home for good
If I lost my way
You know what to do
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you

[Bridge]
Let the storm roll through
Let the engines fade
I can hear that hush
In the pines today
Call my name, old coast
Call me through
I was never lost
I was chasing you

[Final Chorus]
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you
Sweet home Carolina
I’m coming home for good
If I lost my way
You know what to do
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you
Sweet home Carolina
Take me back to you

Written by Otis Claybrooke





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