G5   F5      D5      G5   F5      D5 
{intro} 
 

G5                 F5              D5 
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning 
           G5               F5                   D5 
Light the bayou with our taillights in the night 
       E5                 C5               G5  -  G5    G5 
Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line 
                  C5               A5   D5 
And we never have the money for the flight 
 
VERSE 2: 
            G5           F5              D5 
I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel 
             G5                   F5                 D5 
Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans 
     E5              C5            G5            C5  
I'm dirty from the diesel fuel, drinking coffee black 
         G5                A5             D5   D5 
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean 
 
CHORUS: 
            G5                   G5                   C5       C5 
And there's something about the southland in the springtime 
          G5                 B5             E5    C5 
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason 
         G5                  G5        G5          G5 
Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long 
         A5             G5              C5     D5 
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season 
          A5            G5            C5     D5 
When god made me born a yankee he was teasing 
             E5                G5          C5             D5 
There's no place like home and none more pleasing than the southland 
             G5    C5    C5    F5  C5    D5    C5    G5  G5   G5 
in the springtime 
 
In Georgia, nights are softer than a whisper 
Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand 
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations 
And the peach trees stitched across the land 
There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside 
And warm peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers 
And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky 
With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers 
 
{Repeat chorus, end on last G.} 
 
 
 
INTRO TAB: 
 
 
  G                F9/G           C                D 
E ---------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | ------0=2---2-3- |  
B ----------0----- | --1-------1----- | --1-------1----- | --3-------3----- |  
G ------0-------0- | ------0-------0- | ---------------- | ----2----------- |  
D ----0-------0--- | ----3-------3--- | ----0=2-----0=2- | 0--------------- |  
A ---------------- | ---------------- | 3-------3------- | ---------------- |  
E 3---+---3---+--- | 3---+---3---+--- | +---+---+---+--- | +---+---+---+--- |  
 
 
  G                F9/G           C                D 
E ---------------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | ------0=2------- |  
B ----------0----- | --1-------1----- | --1-------1----- | --3------------- |  
G ------0-------0- | ------0-------0- | ---------------- | ----2----------- |  
D ----0-------0--- | ----3-------3--- | ----0=2-----0=2- | 0--------------- |  
A ---------------- | ---------------- | 3-------3------- | ---------------- |  
E 3---+---3---+--- | 3---+---3---+--- | +---+---+---+--- | +---+---+---+--- |  
 
 
 
- Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com