Roots and Wings by Zona - Zona

Roots and Wings

Track · Jun 17, 2026 · English

Roots and Wings

Duration

4:04

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You fixed that old screen door

With a dime and a prayer

Taught me how to hold my ground

And breathe the open air

Mud on your Sunday boots

Dust on your hands

You said, "Son, the same old soil

Can still make a man"

[Pre-Chorus]

You never kept me caged

You never clipped my sky

You gave me something solid

And a place to say goodbye

[Chorus]

Roots to stand on

Wings to fly

Roots to stand on

Wings to the sky

You held me close

Then let me go

Daddy, you made my heart both ways to grow

[Verse 2]

At the church potluck table

You'd bow your head slow

Pass that hot corn bread around

Like a seed you helped grow

You showed me how to listen

How to mend, not break

How a strong right hand can still

Be gentle for love's sake

[Pre-Chorus]

You never kept me caged

You never clipped my sky

You gave me something solid

And a place to say goodbye

[Chorus]

Roots to stand on

Wings to fly

Roots to stand on

Wings to the sky

You held me close

Then let me go

Daddy, you made my heart both ways to grow

[Bridge]

Now I hear you in the fiddle

In the creek and the pines

In the way that Mama hums

When the blue back-light shines

I still walk your old road

With my head held high

Half your lesson in my hands

Half your blessing in the sky

[Final Chorus]

Roots to stand on

Wings to fly

Roots to stand on

Wings to the sky

You held me close

Then let me go

Daddy, you made my heart both ways to grow

Roots to stand on

Wings to fly

(roots to stand on)

(wings to fly)

You gave me home

And you gave me more

Now I sing your name like a hymn on the porch

Style

bluegrass family-roots ballad with steady picked banjowarm fiddle linesupright bass thumpand tight brother-sister harmonies; verse stays close and porch-litpre-chorus lifts with stacked thirdschorus opens with full family singalong. add fiddle fills between linesa brief mandolin break after verse twoand gentle handclaps on the last chorus. sunlitwoody mixintimate and glowing.bluegrassharmonizedheartfelt

Prompt

A bluegrass family-roots tune with heartfelt harmonized vocals about a father who gave both roots to stand on and wings to fly; fiddle, banjo, sunlit Sunday-morning warmth.

Credits

Prompt byZona

GeneratedJun 17, 2026

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