Well this life that I've lead
has took me everywhere
There ain't no place
I ain't never gone

But it's kind of life the saying
that you heard so many times
Well there just ain't no place like home

Did you ever see a she-gator
protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty
of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass
in Tennessee

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do
is write 'em in a song
'Cause I can see
the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Do you like to see
a mountain stream a-flowin'
Do you like to see a youngun with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about
well, the air you're breathin'
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
'Cause I can see
the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

I'm not tryin'
to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us
is just a bore

Well you can take a boy out of ol' Dixieland
But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy

And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do
is write 'em in a song
'Cause I can see
the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

'Cause I can see
the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes