Well this life that I live has took me everywhere There ain't no place that I ain't never gone But it's kind of like the saying that you heard so many times Well there just ain't no place like home Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young Or a fish in a river swimming free? Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of CarolinaOr the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee? And Lord I can't make any changes All I can do is write 'em in a song' Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'? Do you like to see a youngun with his dog? Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air you're breathin'? 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' Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities But the things they write about us is just a bore Well you can take a boy out of ol' DixielandOh but you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy And Lord I can't make any changes All I can do is write 'em in a song' Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes' Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes
Well this life that I live has took me everywhere There ain't no place that I ain't never gone But it's kind of like the saying that you heard so many times Well there just ain't no place like home Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young Or a fish in a river swimming free? Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of CarolinaOr the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee? And Lord I can't make any changes All I can do is write 'em in a song' Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'? Do you like to see a youngun with his dog? Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air you're breathin'? 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' Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities But the things they write about us is just a bore Well you can take a boy out of ol' DixielandOh but you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy And Lord I can't make any changes All I can do is write 'em in a song' Cause what I can see is the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes' Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin' Lord take me and mine before that comes