Southern accents
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1. There’s a southern accent, where I........I come from,
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the young’uns call it country, the yankees
call it dumb.
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I got my own way of talkin’, but everything is done
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with a southern accent
where I come from.
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2. Now that drunk tank in Atlanta’s, just a
motel room to me,
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think
I might go work Orlando, if them orange groves don’t
freeze.
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I got my own way of workin’, but everything is run
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with
a southern accent where I come from.
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+ For just a minute there I was dreaming,
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for
just a minute it was all so real,
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for
just a minute she was standing there, with me.
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3. There’s a dream I keep having, where my mama comes to me,
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and
kneels down over by the window and says a prayer for me.
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I got my own way of prayin’, but everyone’s begun
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with
a southern accent where I come from.
+ instrumental = verse
3, lines 1 & 2
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I got my own way of livin’, but everything gets done
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with
a southern accent where I come from.
(Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers)