♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ When your wheelhouse is the land of cotton The first time you leave It can be strange, it can be shocking ♪ Not everybody drives a truck Not everybody drinks sweet tea Not everybody owns a gun And wears a ball cap, boots and jeans Not everybody goes to church And watches every NASCAR race Not everybody knows the words To ring a fire or amazing grace Oh, Tennessee land I hope you understand When I miss my Tennessee home And I've been away way too long I can't see this world as I go Outside my southern comfort zone ♪ I have walked the streets of Rome I have been to foreign lands I know what it's like to talk And have nobody understand I have seen the Eiffel Tower Lit up on a Paris night I have kissed a west coast girl Underneath the northern lights I know what it's like to be The only one I need To take a good hard look around At the end of my learning That I miss my Tennessee home But I can't see the ways that I've grown And I can't see this world as I go Outside my southern comfort zone This your biscuits and your gravy Fireflies dancing in the night You have fed me, you have saved me Billy Graham and Martha White But I've since become a drifter And I just can't wait to pack Cause I know the road I leave on It will always bring me back ♪ But I miss my Tennessee home And I miss my Tennessee home And I've been away way too long But I can't see this world as I go Outside my southern comfort zone Look away, look away But I miss my Tennessee home Look away ♪ You and I, we may see We may see We may see We may see We may see We may see