IntroGDC (spoken "2-3-4")
GDEmCGDCVerse 1GD
Well this life that I've lived
EmC
Has took me everywhere
GDC
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
GD
But it's kinda like the sayin
EmC
That you heard so many times
GDC
Well there just ain't no place like home
GDCGDEmC
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngins
GDC
Or the fish in a river swiwin free
GDEmC
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
GDC
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennesee
ChorusGDC
And lord I can't make any changes
GDC
All I can do is write 'em in a song
GDEmC
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin
GDC
Lord take me and mine before that comes
GDCGDCGDC
Like to see the mountain stream a flowing
Do you like to see a youngin with his dog
GDEmC
Did you ever stop and think about well the air you're breathing
GDC
Well you better listen to my song
Chorus
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)
AED (played 4x)
(back to G)Verse 2GDC
I'm not tryin to put down no big city
But the things they write about us is just a bore
GDEmC
You can take a boy out of old Dixieland
GDC
But you'll never take Dixie from a boy
ChorusGDC
And lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
GDEmC
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin
GDC
Lord take me and mine before that comes
OutroGDAmC
Yes well I can see the concrete a slowly creeping
GDC
Lord take me and mine before that comes.
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