Well, this life that I live, it's took me everywhere There ain't no place I ain't never gone But it's kind of like the sin that you've 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 swimmin' free? Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina Or the sweetness of the grass of Tennessee? And Lord, I can't make any changes All I can do is write them in a song Just when I can see the concrete slowly creepin' Lord, take me in mind before that comes Would you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'? Would you like to see a young'un with his dog? Did you ever stop and think about, well, the day you leave? Well, you better listen to my song And Lord, I can't make any changes All I can do is write them in a song Just when I can see the concrete slowly creepin' Lord, take me in mind before that comes I'm not tryin' to put down no big city But the things they write about us are just a bore Well, you can take a boy out of old Dixieland, Lord But you never take old Dixie from a boy And Lord, I can't make any changes All I can do is write them in a song Just when I can see the concrete slowly creepin' Lord, take me in mind before that comes I said, I can see the concrete slowly creepin' Lord, take me in mind before that comes