INTRO: G Cadd9 G Cadd9 VERSE 1: G Cadd9 I grew up a long way from here G Cadd9 I slept with the lights on for fifteen years G Cadd9 And Sabbath kept me home on Friday Nights G And Daddy sang me Rogers Cadd9 Just to make everything all right G Cadd9 My town wasnt even on the map G Cadd9 You could pass right through it in twenty seconds flat G Cadd9 But the south was like the whole world to me G Am D It wasn't easy to stay but it was harder to leave C D G Yeah I was a south bound child C D G Yeah i had a small town life C D G Cadd9 But I turned out all right in the North D G Living that Southern kind of life INSTR: G Cadd9 G Cadd9 VERSE 2: G Cadd9 Old friends and Bibles filled the house G Cadd9 No room for money and no money anyhow G Cadd9 Deprived was something we always heard G Cadd9 But to me and my brother it was just another word G Cadd9 I used to think the north was the end G Cadd9 Cos people go there and they dont come back again G Cadd9 But my fathers father was a man of the sea G Am D He lived the southern life two blocks away from me C D G Yeah I was a south bound child C D G Yeah i had a small town life C D G Cadd9 But I turned out all right in the North D G Living that Southern kind of life C D G Yeah I was a south bound child C D G Yeah i had a small town life C D G Cadd9 But I turned out all right in the North D G Living that Southern kind of life OUTRO: G Cadd9 G Cadd9 G