[Verse 1] Twelve long winters since I packed my case chasin' city money and a prettier face lost 'em both somewhere on a downtown street now I dream of the cabin on Cane Creek [Chorus] There's a cabin on Cane Creek I can't go home to the roof's caved in and the well's run dry a girl with corn-silk hair that I once held onto both of 'em gone like the years roll by [Verse 2] My daddy cleared that bottom land with his own two hands mama hung the wash where the willow stands I traded it all for a neon sign and a one-room walk-up and a bottle of wine [Chorus] There's a cabin on Cane Creek I can't go home to the roof's caved in and the well's run dry a girl with corn-silk hair that I once held onto both of 'em gone like the years roll by [Dobro Break] [Verse 3] If I close my eyes I can smell the rain on the tin-roof porch down the gravel lane but you can't go back, no you can't un-leave to the cabin on Cane Creek that I can't retrieve [Final Chorus] There's a cabin on Cane Creek I can't go home to the roof's caved in and the well's run dry a girl with corn-silk hair that I once held onto both of 'em gone like the years roll by [Outro] both of 'em gone like the years roll by
