Ain't Just a Southern Thing

I left my home in Georgia

Took a dream and a dollar

Went looking for that fortune and fame

Well I found it up in Nashville

With the guitars and the fiddles

Started singing 'cross the U.S. of A

Well I'd played my songs in Georgia

Way down there in Florida

Once or twice in New Orleans

But the sounds I was making

Didn't know that I'd be taking

Them to places that's so far and strange

But the people really dug it

No matter where we strummed it

I felt that it would be okay

'Cause I learned right away

It ain't just a southern thang

Now I've played up in Chicago

And western Colorado

And we kicked 'em dead in Santa Fe

Sung in North and South Dakota

And eastern Oklahoma

And a TV-Show out in L.A.

They got the hats and boots

And them country roots

No matter what state they claim

Yeah the facts are plain

It ain't just a southern thing, y'all

I've seen cowgirls a plenty up in New York City

Milwaukee and in Philly PA

They got the four-wheel drives

On that Minnesota ice

Just like they have in Alabam-a

They're dancing and they're moving

To the lyrics and the music

From Maui up to Bangor Maine

Lord it may sound strange

But it ain't just a southern thing

Yeah I've played up in Chicago

And western Colorado

And we kicked 'em dead in Santa Fe

Sung in North and South Dakota

And eastern Oklahoma

And a TV-Show out in L.A.

They got the hats and boots

And them country roots

No matter what state they claim

All the facts are plain

It ain't just a southern thing

I've played that country music

On the land and the ocean

But people can't say my name

Yeah, the fact remains

It ain't just a southern thing

Oh I've played up in Chicago

And western Colorado

And we kicked 'em dead in Santa Fe

Sung in North and South Dakota

And eastern Oklahoma

And a TV-Show out in L.A.

Oh they got the hats and boots

And country roots

No matter what state they claim

All the facts are plain

It ain't just a southern thing

Oh, it may sound strange

But it ain't just a southern thing

Yeah the fact remains

It ain't just a southern thing, y'all