Southern Kind Of Life

I grew up a long way from here

I slept with the lights on for fifteen 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 twenty 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 all right 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

Cos 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 kind of life two blocks

Away from me

Yeah I was a south bound child

Yeah I had a small town life

But I turned out all right in the North

Living that Southern kind of life

Yeah I was a south bound child

Yeah I had a small town life

But I turned out all right in the North

Living that Southern kind of life