Leave My Country Alone / Bury Me In Dixie

[Verse 1]

I grew up singin' Hank Williams, Willie, Waylon and Cash

Didn't turn twenty-one in prison

But I've had the cops chasin' my ass

Ran off some good hearted women

And I've never been high on cocaine

Daddy always worked for a livin'

And my mama didn't get hit by no train

[Chorus]

And I'll drink a few beers and I'll drink some 'shine

Hell I mean it when I say 'sometimes it rocks'

They tell me that I'm doin' wrong

They say that I just don't belong

They wanna change all the words to my songs

Listen leave my country alone

[Verse 2]

Mt. Cheaha is my Everest, and the Coosa is my Nile

Alabama's where I was born and raised, I think I'll stay awhile

We sing about sweet home, and Dixieland Delight

We tell stories about what goes on in Montgomery at midnight

'Cause music row ain't only in Tennessee

Won't you bury me in Dixie

[Chorus]

Beneath these Alabama pines

Or take me to Tuscaloosa, plant me under the fifty-yard line

Put me in an old truck, a four-door Chevrolet

Drive me down to Guntersville and park me by the lake

Or take me to Toomer's Corner, put me under an oak tree

Give 'em toilet paper till they mummify me

I'll rest in peace if they bury me in Dixie

[Verse 4]

Well lay me by my daddy, and my grandpa just the same

I want every headstone next to me to read my last name

Take me back to Jacksonville, drive me up Mountain Street

Lead me into old Paul Snow and show me to my seat

When God decides it's time for us to meet

Won't you bury me in Dixie

[Chorus]

Where hard work is a plow

I wish Robert E. Lee could come back and take a bow

Take me to the Flora-Bama and set me up at the mullet toss

Everybody drinks on me and I don't care what it cost

Or take me to Talladega, spread my ashes in turn three

Paint my casket black with a big ass number three

I'll rest in peace if they bury me in Dixie

[Outro]

Won't God bless Alabama from sea to Tennesse

I'll rest in peace if they bury me in Dixie