CAPO 3 INTRO: G5 C5 G5 C5 VERSE 1: G5 C5 I grew up a long way from here G5 C5 I slept with the lights on for fifteen years G5 C5 And Sabbath kept me home on Friday Nights G5 And Daddy sang me Rogers C5 Just to make everything all right G5 C5 My town wasnt even on the map G5 C5 You could pass right through it in twenty seconds flat G5 C5 But the south was like the whole world to me G5 A5 D5 It wasn't easy to stay but it was harder to leave C5 D5 G5 Yeah I was a south bound child C5 D5 G5 Yeah i had a small town life C5 D5 G5 C5 But I turned out all right in the North D5 G5 Living that Southern kind of life INSTR: G5 C5 G5 C5 VERSE 2: G5 C5 Old friends and Bibles filled the house G5 C5 No room for money and no money anyhow G5 C5 Deprived was something we always heard G5 C5 But to me and my brother it was just another word G5 C5 I used to think the north was the end G5 C5 Cos people go there and they dont come back again G5 C5 But my fathers father was a man of the sea G5 A5 D5 He lived the southern life two blocks away from me C5 D5 G5 Yeah I was a south bound child C5 D5 G5 Yeah i had a small town life C5 D5 G5 C5 But I turned out all right in the North D5 G5 Living that Southern kind of life C5 D5 G5 Yeah I was a south bound child C5 D5 G5 Yeah i had a small town life C5 D5 G5 C5 But I turned out all right in the North D5 G5 Living that Southern kind of life OUTRO: G5 C5 G5 C5 G5