Oh my mind is drifting back to that ramshackle shack In the hills of old Kentucky far away Oh I never thought I'd yearn, and someday that I'd return To that ramshackle shack there someday
I can hear the whippoorwill Softly sending his message from the hill I will nevermore roam from my old Kentucky home And that ramshackle shack on the hill
I've a sweetheart waiting there, with her smile and face so fair There beneath the smiling honeysuckle vine We'll be happy as can be in that land of melody When I kiss her and I know that she is mine
I can hear the whippoorwill Softly sending his message from the hill I will nevermore roam from my old Kentucky home And that ramshackle shack on the hill.