Red shed short bed chevy
Bobwhite and a dogwood tree
Back pew pine to pine wood stools
Where the River and your roots run deep
Carpet mill can't stick around town
Make the most til you make it out
Turning my mind to miles on the interstate
Polaroid Detroit dashboard picture frame
I'm putting that map dot in my rear view
And ditching those Dalton dirt road blues
You can take a kid out of the country
But you can't take it out of the kid
Tear down every Texaco star in the sky
Where the blacktop ends
You can put parking lots over pastures home ain't home if home don't matter
You can paint this town anyway you please
You don't know how much you lose until you leave
I'll always be a boy from GA
Have county line peach on my plate
I've got a piece of Heaven everywhere I go
But it's gone to hell on a grease pole
When I smell biscuits and taste sweet tea
I hear a vacuum running and CMT
Playing one about a grape snow cone
It's in my heart but it's been too long
You can take a kid out of the country
But you can't take it out of the kid
Tear down every Texaco star in the sky
Where the blacktop ends
You can put parking lots over pastures home ain't home if home don't matter
You can paint this town anyway you please
You don't know how much you lose until you leave
I'm putting that map dot in my rear view
And ditching those Dalton dirt road blues
You can take a kid out of the country
But you can't take it out of the kid
Tear down every Texaco star in the sky
Where the blacktop ends
You can put parking lots over pastures home ain't home if home don't matter
You can paint this town anyway you please
You don't know how much you lose until you leave