Southern kind of life    (intro)

 

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1.    I grew up a long way from here,

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    I slept with the lights on for         fifteen years.

              G                                                  C

    And Sabbath kept me home on Friday nights,

             G                                                C

    and Daddy sang me Rogers, just to make everything all right.

 

    G                                                  C

2.      My town wasn't even on the map,

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    you could pass right through it in twenty seconds flat.

                  G                              C

    But the south was like the whole world to me,

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    it wasn't easy to stay but it was harder to leave.

 

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Yeah, I was a south bound child,

                          C   D      G

yeah, I had a small town life,

                    C   D  G                 C

but I turned out all right in the north,

D                                             G

    living that southern kind of life.

 

    - C    G - C

 

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3.      Old friends and Bibles filled the house,

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    no room for money, and no money anyhow.

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    Deprived was something we always heard,

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    but to me and my brother it was just another word.

 

    G                                                        C

4.      I used to think the north was the end,

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    'cause people go there and they don't come back again.

G                                                 C

    But my father's father was a man of the sea,

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    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                 C

but I turned out all right in the north,

D                                             G

    living that southern kind of life.

 

+ repeat CHORUS       +  C     G - C    G

 

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)     (Kasey Chambers)