Sometimes I think about you   Wonder if you're out there somewhere thinking 'bout me   And would you even recognize   The woman that your little girl has grown up to be      'Cause I look in the mirror and all I see   Are your brown eyes looking back at me   They're the only thing you ever gave to me at all      Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California   There's sunny skies as far as I can see   If you ever come back home to Carolina   I wonder what you'd say to me      I think about how it ain't fair   That you weren't there to braid my hair like mothers do   You weren't around to cheer me on   Help me dress for my high school prom like mothers do      Did you think I didn't need you here?   To hold my hand, to dry my tears?   Did you even miss me through the years at all?      Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California   There's sunny skies as far as I can see   If you ever come back home to Carolina   I wonder what you'd say to me      Forgiveness is such a simple word   But it's so hard to do when you've been hurt      Oh, I hear the weather's nice in California   And just in case you're wondering about me   From now on I won't be in Carolina   Your little girl is off, your little girl is off   Your little girl is off to Tennessee