G   F/G      D      G   F/G      D 
{intro} 
 

G                 F/G              D 
Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning 
           G               F/G                   D 
Light the bayou with our taillights in the night 
       Em                 C               G  -  Gsus    G 
Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line 
                  C               Am7   D7 
And we never have the money for the flight 
 
VERSE 2: 
            G           F/G              D 
I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel 
             G                   F/G                 D 
Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans 
     Em              C            G            C/G  
I'm dirty from the diesel fuel, drinking coffee black 
         G                Am7             D7sus   D7 
When the first breath of Texas comes in clean 
 
CHORUS: 
            G                   G                   C       C 
And there's something about the southland in the springtime 
          G                 B7             Em    C 
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason 
         G                  Gsus/A        G/B          Gsus/C 
Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long 
         Am7             G/B              C     D 
Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season 
          Am7            G/B            C     D 
When god made me born a yankee he was teasing 
             Em7                G/B          C             D 
There's no place like home and none more pleasing than the southland 
             G    C/G    C    F/C  C    D    C    G  Gsus   G 
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