We catch our memories wandering through the past from time to time
As a mountain families' music fills again inside our mind
We dream about Euganean Hills and West Virginian land

And an old time family blue grass band.

Our God fearing mum and daddy raised us young 'uns on a song

By the banks where old new river gently sways and rolled along
Where once upon a time there dwelled a close knit mountain clan
An old time family blue grass band.


You never heard the like of melodies our family played
The guitars kept the rhythm as the fiddles sawed away

We recall a banjo ringing and a singing mandolin
In an old time family blue grass band.


Daddy slapped the upright, mama strummed the adult part
We couldn't read the music we just played it all by heart
Lord hallowed songs just flowed across that fertile mountain land

In an old time family blue grass band.

I see us sitting round the porch on starry summer nights

I remember how the music made my world seem good and right
When all the folks would raise their happy voices and join in
With the old time family blue grass band.


You never heard the like of melodies our family played
The guitars kept the rhythm as the fiddles sawed away

We recall a banjo ringing and a singing mandolin
In an old time family blue grass band.
Yes an old time family blue grass band.