Run your fingers through my hair
And softly kiss my lips
And hold me close in your embrace
And love me face to face

Face to face, heart to heart, body to body
Tingling tangle feelings lovers face to face

I'll caress your body
And hold you close to me
I'll slide my hands around your waist
And love you face to face

Face to face, heart to heart, body to body
Lips on lips, arm and arm, body to body
Tinglng tangle feelings lovers face to face

Softly say you love me
As you make love to me
No one else can take your place
We happen face to face

Chorus:
Song, song of the south
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
Gone, gone with the wind
There ain't nobody looking back again

Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
We all picked the cotton but we never got rich
Daddy was a veteran, a southern democrat
They oughta get a rich man to vote like that

Sing it...

Chorus

Well somebody told us Wall Street fell
But we were so poor that we couldn't tell
Cotton was short and the weeds were tall
But Mr. Roosevelt's a gonna save us all

Well momma got sick and daddy got down
The county got the farm and they moved to town
Pappa got a job with the TBA
He bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet

Sing it...

Chorus

Play it...

Sing it...

Chorus

Song, song of the south...

Gone, gone with the wind...

Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.
Song, song of the south.
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth.

Sing it...

Chorus 2X

We didn't know the times were lean
Round our house the grass was green
It didn't seem like things were all that bad

I bet we walked a thousand miles
Chopin' cotton and pushin' plows
And learnin' how to give it all we had

As life went on and years went by
I saw the light in daddy's eyes
And felt the love in mama's hands

They kept us warm and kept us fed
Taught us how to look ahead
Now lookin' back I understand.

Chorus:
We were walkin' in high cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Those fertile fields are never far away
We were walkin' in high cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Leavin' home was the hardest thing we ever faced.

When Sunday mornings rolled around
We dressed up in hand-me downs
Just in time together with the church
Sometimes I think how long it's been
And how it impressed me then
It was the only day my daddy wouldn't work.

Chorus x3

We were walkin' in high cotton

Just off of the beaten path
A little dot on a state road map
Thats where I was born and where Ill die
Things move at a slower pace
Nobodys in the rat race
And these days thats a special way of life

Chorus:
Down home, where they know you by name
And treat you like family
Down home, a mans godd word and s hand shake
Are all you need
Folks know, if they;re fallnig on hard times
They can fall back on
Thos of us raised up down home

In the corner of the hardware store
Gathered round a checkerboard
Old men telling lies and crowning kings
Kids driving round th eold town square
Tops rolled down in the coll night air
Do and see whats shaking at the dairy queen

Rpeat chorus

Bridge
When I was a boy, I couldnt wait to leave this place
Butnow I want to see my children raised down home, down home

Folks know, if theyre falling on hard times
They can fall back on
Those of us raised up...

Repeat chorus

We could walk away now
Call it over and done
Say we fought the good fight
And nobody won

Say we're both better off
That worse came to worst
So we didn't last
Hey, we're not the first

But then again
If we give it one more try
We might find the feeling
Never really died
And there's still a chance to be
All we might have been
And find the love we had back then again

Off to such a good start
But somehow it seems
We've let our hearts
Fall apart at the dreams

We could throw in the towel
Walk away with our pride
Say it just wasn't worth
All the tears that we cried

But then again
If we give it one more try
We might find the feeling
Never really died
And there's still a chance to be
All we might have been
Let's find the love we had back then again

Baby, if we want it bad enough
We can make it better than it ever was

And there's still a chance to be
All we might have been
Let's find the love we had back then again

Clear creeks and cool mountain mornin's.
Honest work out in the fields.
Cornbread in my momma's kitchen.
Daddy saying grace before the meal.
Family ties run deep in this land.
And I'm never very far from what I am.

I was born country and that's what I'll always be.
Like the rivers and the woodlands wild and free.
I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood.
I was born country and this country's what I love.

Moonlight and you hear beside me.
Crickets serenadin' in the yard.
What more could two people ask for.
Laying here in love beneath the stars.
Now this is where I wanna raise my kids.
Just the way my mom and daddy did.

I was born country and that's what I'll always be.
Like the rivers and the woodlands wild and free.
I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood.
I was born country and this country's what I love.

I was born country and that's what I'll always be.
Like the rivers and the woodlands wild and free.
I got a hundred years of down home running through my blood.
I was born country and this country's what I love.

I was born country

Life ain't all that easy, I can testify to that
It's been up and down and round and round to get where I'm at
If you could see how I'm living in this old car I drive
Well, you'd probably wonder and even ponder why I even wanna stay alive

So give me one more shot, I'll give it all I've got
"Let me open my eyes to a new sunrise," I pray
Give me one more chance, I'll learn to dance the dance
I'm satisfied just being alive, give me one more day

I could complain about taxes or the weather we're having today
Go on and on about things that are wrong from New York to LA
Well, that's just not my nature to sit around feeling sad
We're only here for a while so why not smile
Hey, living ain't all that bad

So give me one more shot, I'll give it all I've got
"Let me open my eyes to a new sunrise," I pray
Give me one more chance, I'll learn to dance the dance
I'm satisfied just being alive, give me one more day

When I look around, there's lots of folks worse off than me
So I just thank the good Lord ask Him please

Give me one more shot, I'll give it all I've got
"Let me open my eyes to a new sunrise," I pray
And give me one more chance, I'll learn to dance the dance
Well, I'm satisfied just being alive, give me one more day
I'm satisfied just being alive, give me one more day

Give me one more shot, I'll give it all I've got
Give me one more day
Show me the way and give me one more day
Give me one more shot

I've got her photograph on the stand by my bed
Two on the mantle and thousands in my head
I can't believe how fast she's growing it ain't supposed to be like this
Everytime I look at her I see how much I've missed

I missed her first steps, her first words
And I love you Daddy is something I seldom heard
Oh it hurts me so to watch my girl grow up in pictures

I sent her money down do my best to do my part
But it can't compare to what I pay with my heart
There's still one unanswered question weighing heavy on my mind
Will she ever understand the reasons why

I missed her first steps, her first words
And I love you Daddy is something I seldom heard
Oh it hurts me so to watch my girl grow up in pictures

It takes all I have to keep the tears inside
What I wouldn't give if I could turn back time

I missed her first steps, her first words
And I love you Daddy is something I seldom heard
Oh it hurts me so to watch my baby grow up in pictures