Standard (EADGBE)

Well this life that I've lived

Has took me everywhere

There ain't no place I ain't never gone

But it's kinda like the sayin

That you heard so many times

Well there just ain't no place like home

Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngins

Or the fish in a river swiwin free

Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina

Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennesee

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 that comes

Like to see the mountain stream a flowing

Do you like to see a youngin with his dog

Did you ever stop and think about well the air you're breathing

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 A for piano solo)

(back to G)

I'm not tryin to put down no big city

But the things they write about us is just a bore

You can take a boy out of old Dixieland

But you'll never take Dixie from a boy

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 that comes

Yes well I can see the concrete a slowly creeping

Lord take me and mine before that comes.