I grew up along way from here
I slept with the lights on for fifteen years
And Sabbath kept me home on Friday nights
And Daddy sang me Rodgers just to make everything al 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
It 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 al 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 use to think the north was the end
'Cause people go there and they don't come back again
But my father's father was a man of the sea
He lived a southern life two blocks away from me

Yeah, I was a south bound child
Yeah, I had a small town life
But I turned out al 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 al right in the north
Living that southern kind of life