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.