Key: G 
 
G D C (spoken "2-3-4") 
G D Em C, G D C 
 
          G              D 
Well this life that I've lived 
    Em           C 
Has took me everywhere 
G                    D             C 
There ain't no place I ain't never gone 
 
         G              D 
But it's kinda like the sayin 
         Em            C 
That you heard so many times 
           G          D             C 
Well there just ain't no place like home 
 
G D C 
        G          D         Em          C 
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her youngins 
       G         D            C 
Or the fish in a river swiwin free 
        G            D             Em            C 
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina 
       G                D        C 
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennesee 
 
    G            D        C 
And lord I can't make any changes 
G               D              C 
All I can do is write 'em in a song 
G                D           Em     C 
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin 
G                D              C 
Lord take me and mine before that comes 
 
G D C 
G D C 
 
G               D                 C 
Like to see the mountain stream a flowing 
Do you like to see a youngin with his dog 
G                     D                Em             C 
Did you ever stop and think about well the air you're breathing 
G                      D     C 
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) 
A E D (played 4x) 
(back to G) 
 
G                D               C 
I'm not tryin to put down no big city 
But the things they write about us is just a bore 
G                  D         Em      C 
You can take a boy out of old Dixieland 
G                     D            C 
But you'll never take Dixie from a boy 
 
G                D        C 
And lord I can't make any changes 
All I can do is write 'em in a song 
G                 D          Em     C 
Cus I can see the concrete a slowly creepin 
G                D                C 
Lord take me and mine before that comes   
 
         G             D          Am     C 
Yes well I can see the concrete a slowly creeping 
G                D                C 
Lord take me and mine before that comes.