CAPO 3 
 
INTRO: G  C9  G C9           
 

VERSE 1: 
G                         C9 
I grew up a long way from here 
G                          C9 
I slept with the lights on for fifteen years 
    G                          C9 
And Sabbath kept me home on Friday Nights 
    G                 
And Daddy sang me Rogers 
        C9 
Just to make everything all right 
G                         C9 
My town wasnt even on the map 
G                               C9 
You could pass right through it in twenty seconds flat 
        G                                 C9 
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            C9  
But I turned out all right in the North 
D                            G 
Living that Southern kind of life  
 
INSTR: 
G  C9  G C9       
VERSE 2: 
G                                 C9 
Old friends and Bibles filled the house 
G                        C9 
No room for money and no money anyhow 
G                         C9 
Deprived was something we always heard 
G                               C9 
But to me and my brother it was just another word 
G                                 C9 
I used to think the north was the end 
G                                 C9 
Cos people go there and they dont come back again 
G                           C9 
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            C9  
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            C9  
But I turned out all right in the North 
D                            G 
Living that Southern kind of life 
 
OUTRO: 
G  C9  G C9  G