G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 E5 C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 Well this life that I've lived E5 C5 Has took me everywhere G5 D5 C5 There ain't no place I ain't never gone G5 D5 But it's kinda like the sayin E5 C5 That you heard so many times G5 D5 C5 Well there just ain't no place like home G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 E5 C5 Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngins G5 D5 C5 Or the fish in a river swiwin free G5 D5 E5 C5 Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina G5 D5 C5 Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennesee G5 D5 C5 And lord I can't make any changes G5 D5 C5 All I can do is write 'em in a song G5 D5 E5 C5 Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin G5 D5 C5 Lord take me and mine before that comes G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 C5 G5 D5 C5 Like to see the mountain stream a flowing Do you like to see a youngin with his dog G5 D5 E5 C5 Did you ever stop and think about well the air you're breathing G5 D5 C5 Well you better listen to my song 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) A5 E5 D5 (played 4x) (back to G5 ) G5 D5 C5 I'm not tryin to put down no big city But the things they write about us is just a bore G5 D5 E5 C5 You can take a boy out of old Dixieland G5 D5 C5 But you'll never take Dixie from a boy G5 D5 C5 And lord I can't make any changes All I can do is write 'em in a song G5 D5 E5 C5 Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin G5 D5 C5 Lord take me and mine before that comes G5 D5 A5 C5 Yes well I can see the concrete a slowly creeping G5 D5 C5 Lord take me and mine before that comes.