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