| G  D  | C
            2-3-4
| G  D  | Em  C  | G  D  | C

[Verse 1]
           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

[Instrumental]
| G  D  | C

[Verse 2]
        G          D        Em           C
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her younguns
   G         D              C
Or fish in a river swimmin' 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 Tennessee

[Chorus]
    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
Cuz I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
G                D                C
Lord take me and mine before that comes

[Instrumental]
| G  D  | C     |
| G  D  | C     |

[Verse 3]
G             D                 C
Like to see a mountain stream a-flowing
       G             D                 C
Do you like to see a youngun 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

[Chorus]
    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
Cuz I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
G                D                C
Lord take me and mine before that comes

[Piano Solo] (key change to A)
| A  E  | D     | x4

[Verse 4] (back to G)
G                 D               C
I'm not tryin' to put down no big city
        G                  D                 C
But the things they write about us is just a bore
              G          D         Em     C
Well, you can take a boy out of ol' Dixieland, Lord
           G              D             C
But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy

[Chorus]
    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
Cuz I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
G                D                C
Lord take me and mine before that comes

        G             D         Em      C
I said, I can see the concrete a slowly creepin'
G                D                Em
Lord take me and mine before that comes