Story Behind The Song

Based on a title I was working with

Song Description

A midwesterner find his heraland in his wife

Lyrics

She's the pride of the Hawkeye state
Katherine but they call her Kate
Tall n' lean as summer corn
A sight to see since she was born
She can light a room up just by walkin' in
Stop you in your tracks with just a smile

Chorus
She sings like rain and moves like wind
As cool as the Missiissip'
As pretty as a wild rose bloomin' on the prairie
A soul as deep as river mud
She runs through me as rich as blood
And somehow God has put her here in my hands
She's everywhere I am...she's my heartland

I met her we were 5 years old
Grew up on the same dirt road
One day when we were 12
She carved our names in a shady elm
She said someday boy I know you're gonna' marry me
I just blushed and ran back home


Chorus
She sings like rain and moves like wind
As cool as the Missiissip'
As pretty as a wild rose bloomin' on the prairie
A soul as deep as river mud
She runs through me as rich as blood
And somehow God has put her here in my hands
She's everywhere I am...she's my heartland

Bridge:
We carved out our own dream
Name's still on that old elm tree
The beauty in the seeds we've sewn
We've got a daughter of our own


Chorus
And She sings like rain and moves like wind
As cool as the Missiissip'
As pretty as a wild rose bloomin' on the prairie
A soul as deep as river mud
She runs through me as rich as blood
And somehow God has put her here in my hands
She's everywhere I am...she's my heartland
Yeah they're everywhere I am...they're my heartland