Momma and Daddy raisin' cotton and kids
Where the Mississippi River rolls
Planting my dreams in that black Delta dirt
Coughing out another tomorrow

A sharecropper shack in that hot cotton patch
Was home sweet home to me
And I wouldn't take a mansion in trade
For my Mississippi memories

Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi
Miss that misty Delta dawn
Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi
Oh, I miss my Mississippi home

Now the kids have grown up and Momma's passed on
And Daddy's age is starting to show
And things have changed, there's a big 4-lane
Where that Delta cotton used to grow

But time hasn't touched my daddy's love
For his hard working sharecropper wife
Cause I've overheard his soft tender words
When he talks to her picture at night

Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi
Miss that misty Delta dawn
Oh, I'm missin' Mississippi
Oh, I miss my Mississippi home

Oh, I miss my Mississippi home