Way down south in Mississipp' Was a place we used to live But now it's gone, it is no more Gone away from that Pearl River shore Back and forth in a rockin' chair Smell camellias on the air Mama's voice goodnight bade And I drifted to sleep unafraid Lazy days, warm summer nights Look through trees to the star-filled sky Down below the sparklin' wave How we miss those Logtown days Leaves quickly changed Our whole world did, too Made to leave our homes, Leave ev'rything we knew Ah, ah, ah ... Now no one comes, and no one goes And hardly anybody knows Once a town that is no more Stood upon that Pearl River shore Once a town that is no more Stood upon that Pearl River shore