I grew up a long way from here

I slept with the lights on for 15 years

And Sabbath kept me home on friday nights

And Daddy sang me Rogers

Just to make everything all right



My town wasn't even on the map

You could pass right through it in 20 seconds flat

But the south was like the whole world to me

Wasn't easy to stay but it was harder to leave



Yeah I was a south bound child

Yeah I had a small town life

But I turned out alright in the north

Living that southern kind of life



Old friends and bibles filled the house

No room for money and no money anyhow

Deprived was something we always heard

But to me and my brother it was just another word



I used to think the north was the end

Coz people go there and they don't come back again

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

He lived the southern life 2 blocks away from me