Take The Country Out of Me

Album: See The Light (2007)
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  • I grew up on Merle Haggard, ZZ Top and CDB
    And if that Freebird wasn't soarin'
    Y'all would have never heard of me
    Turn up Bocephus on the radio
    Marshall Tucker now can't you see
    You can take me out the country
    But you'll never take the country out of me
    Can't go a day without Waylon Jennings
    And the red haired stranger's on my mind
    Johnny Cash and Jimmy Rogers
    JJ Cale and Old John Prine
    My Sweet Melissa keeps on callin'
    Take a load off Annalee
    I ain't never been to Heaven
    But I hear it's just the same as Tennessee
    Now my face might seem familiar
    You see me smiling on T.V.
    They might take me out to L.A.
    But they'll never take sweet Dixieland from me
    They might take me out the country
    But they'll never take the country out of me
    If you didn't know that I was country
    Alabama's always home to me Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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