Song Description

A man's favorite restaurant serves memories of when his mom took him there.

Lyrics

Chickahominy House ©
By Mack Reynolds

Verse 1 (F6-Gm7-Bb-C-Dm-Am)
By the Chickahominy River, 'neath Virginia pines
Sits a little bitty diner on the county line
Nothin' much to look at; most folks drive right by
But that clapboard shack means the world to me
And every time I go, they serve a memory
When Mama took me there for supper and buttermilk pie
Chorus (F-C-Bb-F-Dm-C-Bb-C)
It was Mama and me and Chickahominy
Nothin' since then means as much to me
There's country, God and family - then there's how I feel about Chickahominy
Verse 2
And every Saturday after I turned seven
We'd climb those stairs to a little slice of heaven
Always got Virginia ham biscuits; grits on the side
Verse 3
Now when I come home from this dream I chase
No time to unpack. I hit that sacred place
Chickahominy House for supper and buttermilk pie
Chorus
Bridge (Gm-Bb-C-Am-Dm-GM7-C)
Mama passed a year ago July
And I sit here alone again tonight
So, I close my eyes, shut out the light
Close my eyes and take a bite of that pie... And
Chorus
Repeat and out