Childhood Playground Lyrics - Porter Wagoner

Take me far across the wide Missoury 

To reach where wild oak trees grow tall and slim 

To little hillside farm in Hopewell County 

Let me see my childhood playgroung once again 

It's been a long time since I've seen my homeplace 

Wonder if the trees still stand so tall 

Wonder they remember how I'm climbing and swing upon the limbs when I was small 

When I was just a child I played for hours 

On the banks of Southport Creek not far away 

Skipping rocks across the water walking barefoot through the meadow 

Watching daddy work the fields of new mown hay 

So take me far across the wide Missoury 

To reach where wild oak trees grow tall and slim 

Let me live again those happy childhood mem'ries 

Let me see my childhood playground once again 

Mom would always tell me don't go swimmin' 

Son there's turtles in that water mean as sin 

But I slipped far away behind the willows then as naked as jailbird I jumped in 

So take me far across... 

Oh let me see my childhood playground once again