When God Made Me Born a Yankee She Was Teasing

I have been beating the dead horse of "I am so ready for spring" since Christmas. I have also mentioned before that I sometimes equate my own journey from living in Michigan to living in Georgia to Persephone's own journey to the underworld and back - though I waffle as to which direction I go every time I think about it. 

There is this song by Indigo Girls. It is called "Southland in the Springtime".  I love the way it makes me feel.  Every time I listen to it I remember why I fell in love with the mountains in North Georgia and Western North Carolina.  This video is just an exerpt of the song, but my favorite part. 

Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning

Light the bayou with our tail lights in the night

800 miles to El Paso from the state line

And we never have the money for the flight

I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel

Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans

I'm dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black

When the first breath of Texas comes in clean

And there's something 'bout the Southland in the springtime

Where the waters flow with confidence and reason

Though I miss her when I'm gone it won't ever be too long

Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season

When God made me born a yankee he was teasin'

There's no place like home and none more pleasin'

Than the Southland in the springtime

In Georgia nights are softer than a whisper

Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand

With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations

And the peach trees stitched across the land

There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside

And boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers

And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky

With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers