Key: G5
G5 D5 C5 (spoken "2-3-4")
G5 D5 E5 C5 , G5 D5 C5
G5 D5
Well this life that I've lived
E5 C5
Has took me everywhere
G5 D5 C5
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
G5 D5
But it's kinda like the sayin
E5 C5
That you heard so many times
G5 D5 C5
Well there just ain't no place like home
G5 D5 C5
G5 D5 E5 C5
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngins
G5 D5 C5
Or the fish in a river swiwin free
G5 D5 E5 C5
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
G5 D5 C5
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennesee
G5 D5 C5
And lord I can't make any changes
G5 D5 C5
All I can do is write 'em in a song
G5 D5 E5 C5
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin
G5 D5 C5
Lord take me and mine before that comes
G5 D5 C5
G5 D5 C5
G5 D5 C5
Like to see the mountain stream a flowing
Do you like to see a youngin with his dog
G5 D5 E5 C5
Did you ever stop and think about well the air you're breathing
G5 D5 C5
Well you better listen to my song
And lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin
Lord take me and mine before it comes
(key change to A5 for piano solo)
A E D (played 4x)
(back to G5 )
G5 D5 C5
I'm not tryin to put down no big city
But the things they write about us is just a bore
G5 D5 E5 C5
You can take a boy out of old Dixieland
G5 D5 C5
But you'll never take Dixie from a boy
G5 D5 C5
And lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
G5 D5 E5 C5
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin
G5 D5 C5
Lord take me and mine before that comes
G5 D5 A5 C5
Yes well I can see the concrete a slowly creeping
G5 D5 C5
Lord take me and mine before that comes.