Go up to Carvers Gap all the time to walk the trail on the TN/NC line. When the Rhododendron are blooming it’s really pretty.
The van had pulled over at Carver's Gap as the passengers scrambled for the McNally road map
They were lost as a twelve titted goat.
" You said you had the friggin' map, " said Willie, a long bearded feller from the south of Philly
Feelin' like they were up shat creek sans paddle or boat.
One of the passengers was a lady named Mona, who its said grew up in Greensboro's Pomona
A neighborhood on the south side
She said she'd had one of them Corvette cars prior to all the juke joints and chicken wire bars
Claimed her ex was a camel named Clyde.
The chick that sat in the back in the middle played some smokin' hot guitar and fiddle
For a few years she ran a beaver farm
Said she ran for Miss Oklahoma when she wasn't in a self induced coma
After a tree monkey nearly took off her arm.
" It shore is purdy up in here, " said Sassy, an ex topless dancer from east Tallahassee
As she gazed at the beauty of Buncombe County
She had graduated with honors from the college of Yale, but had done some time in a Norway jail
Something about a misplaced bounty.
The road map was found and it was time to go, get this thang movin' called The Dog and Pony Show
The Appalachian Trail was such good fun
We waved bye to the mountains out the vehicle winnders, the kudzu lookin' like Freddy Fender
Time to eat some fried chicken betwix a hamburger bun.