Verse 1
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El Caminos and bikini tops, a place that’s sticky and hot 
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Bar-BmQue and anything fried, and greens and cornbread on the side 
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It’s a place that I call home. Been there since before I was grown. 
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Nights filled with Lightning bugs, All the things down south I love 
 
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Down south, the place I love, the only place that I dream of 
 
Verse 2
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Down south the Spanish moss grows, got a question mama knows 
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Black eyed peas on New Year’s Day, where they do things their own way 
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Where the corn grows to the roadside, fireworks on the 4th of July 
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Family secrets soaps are made of, down south the place I love 
 
Chorus
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Down south, the place I love, the only place that I dream of 
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Where you can live high on the hog, and raise your kids and have a couple of dogs 
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Down south, where I come from, where I wanna be when it's said and done, 
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Heading down to a place like nowhere else, down south , 
 
Verse 3
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Sunday NASCAR’s on every TV, There’s no greater man than #3 
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See who wears the tightest jeans, them southern girls you know what I mean 
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Wear your school colors on Saturday, tailgate outside the place they 
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play, 
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Gossip that comes out of those girl’s mouths, only in the place they call down south 
 
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Down south, the place I love, the only place that I dream of 
 
Verse 4
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Look up at the stars and connect the dots, where the dirt roads never seem to stop 
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Good Ole boys, rednecks, moonshine, That fish was so big I ain’t lyin’ 
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Moonlit summers last into the fall, spring comes early for us all, 
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Just a few of the things this place is made of, down south the place I love 
 
Chorus
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Down south, the place I love, the only place that I dream of 
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Where you can live high on the hog, and raise your kids and have a couple of dogs 
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Down south, where I come from, where I wanna be when it's said and done, 
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Heading down to a place like nowhere else, down south , 
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Whoa, Down South 
 
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