Well this life that I've lead has took me everywhere 
There ain't no place I ain't never gone 
But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times 
Well there just ain't no plae 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 
I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 
Lord take me and mine before [bad word] 

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 your 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 
I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 
Lord take me and mine before [bad word] 

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 
I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 
Lord take me and mine before [bad word] 
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin' 
Lord take me and mine before [bad word]