Lyrics to Selma Drye

(Verse)

My great grandma’s name was Selma Drye

Everybody tell me I got her hazel eyes

It turn Carolina blue when I cry

And that’s alright with me

(Verse)

She kept a 38 special and a can of snuff

In the pocket of her rip in case something came up

She grew up ragged and she grew up rough

The way she had been

(Chorus – part 1)

I know so much she’d be proud of me

‘Cause I’m the only apple on the tree

That didn’t hit the ground

And sit down in the mud

(Chorus – part 2)

But she’s up in heaven raising hell

And if I can stand up by myself

It’s ‘cause her gunpowder’s running through my blood

And when I die put me in the ground beside… Selma Drye

(Verse)

Folks round town, they said she was neat

But never saw the woman I’ve seen

Never even touched a washing machine

And hung everything on the line

(Verse)

Kept the peaches and her money in a can and jar

Never owned a TV or drove a car

That stuff don’t make you what you are

She used to say that all the time

(Chorus – part 1)

I know so much she’d be proud of me

‘Cause I’m the only apple on the tree

That didn’t hit the ground

And sit down in the mud

(Chorus – part 2)

But she’s up in heaven raising hell

And if I can stand up by myself

It’s ‘cause her gunpowder’s running through my blood

And when I die put me in the ground beside… Selma Drye

(Bridge)

I still got her words of wisdom playing in my head

And her old beat-up Bible’s on my night stand by my bed

(Chorus – part 1)

I know so much she’d be proud of me

‘Cause I’m the only apple on the tree

That didn’t hit the ground

And sit down in the mud

(Chorus – part 2)

But she’s up in heaven raising hell

And if I can stand up by myself

It’s ‘cause her gunpowder’s running through my blood

And when I die put me in the ground beside…

When I die just put me in the ground beside… Selma Drye

Selma Drye…