Biography:
Bobby Bare (born Robert Joseph Bare on April 7, 1935 in Ironton, Ohio) is an American country music singer and songwriter.
In the fifties after many failed attempts to sell his songs, he finally was signed up with Capitol Records and recorded a few rock and roll songs without much chart success. Just before he was drafted into the Army, he wrote a song called 'The All American Boy' and did a demo for his friend, Bill Parsons, to learn and record it.
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Other songs:
- Tequila Sheila
- 500 Miles Away From Home
- A Little Bit Later On Down The Line
- Alimony
- All American Boy
- All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
- Amarillo Highway
- Baby Dont Believe Him
- Big Dupree
- Book Of Love
- Brian Hennessey
- Calgary Snow
- Candy Coated Kisses
- Charleston Railroad
- Chester
- Christmas Time At Grandmas House
- Coal River
- Come Kiss Me Love
- Come On Home And Sing The Blues To Daddy
- Come Sundown
- Cowboy And The Poet Faster Horses
- Cowboys And Daddys
- Daddy What If
- Dear Wastebasket
- Detroit City
- Dont It Make You Wanna Go Home
- Dont Think Twice Its Alright
- Down In Mexico
- Down To My Last Come And Get Me
- Drinking From The Bottle
- Drop Kick Me Jesus
- Dropping Out Of Sight
- Find Out Whats Happening
- Five Hundred Miles
- Game Of Triangles
- Gods Were Angry With Me
- Greasy Grit Gravy
- Hard Time Hungrys
- Have I Stayed Away Too Long
- Heaven Help My Soul
- Hes A Cowboy
- High Plains Jamboree
- Hillbilly Hell
- Homecoming
- How About You
- I Dont Believe Ill Fall In Love Today
- I Hate Goodbyes
- I Love An Old Fashioned Christmas
- I Never Went To Bed With An Ugly Woman
- I Took A Memory For Lunch
- I Took A Memory To Lunch
- I Wonder Where You Are Tonight
- Id Fight The World
- If You Aint Got Nothing
- Im A Long Way From Home
- Im Gettin Lonely
- Im Not A Candle In The Wind
- In The Hills Of Shiloh
- It All Depends On Linda
- Last Dance At The Old Texas Moon
- Lemon Tree
- Little Bit Later On Down The Line
- Long Way To Tennessee
- Lost In Millers Cave
- Margies At The Lincoln Park Inn
- Marie Laveau
- Mrs Jones Your Daughter Cried All Night
- Numbers
- Ode To The Little Brown Shack Out Back
- Passin Through
- Please Dont Tell Me How The Story Ends
- Please Dont Tell Me Till The Story Ends
- Pretty Painted Ladies
- Rosalies Good Eats Cafe
- Rough On The Living
- Shame On Me
- She My Ever Lovin Machine
- Song Of The South
- Speckled Pony
- Thats How I Got To Memphis
- The Jogger
- The Mermaid
- The Mermaid Song
- The Stranger
- The Winner
- Things Change
- To Whom It May Concern
- Try To Remember
- Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother
- What Am I Gonna Do Girl
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This song was written by Bob McDill and was originally recorded by Bobby Bare in 1980 on his ‘Drunk and Crazy’
album. That’s where I learned it and that’s where the extra (second) verse comes from which was not included
by Alabama on their hit cover of this song. The ‘TVA’ mentioned in the last verse is the
‘Tennessee Valley Authority’.
SONG OF THE SOUTH
INTRO:
D///A7///G///D/// D///A7///G///D///
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
G D
We all picked cotton but we never got rich
D A7
Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat he said
G D
They oughta get the rich men to vote like that
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
When I was eighteen well I ate my fill
G D
We lived on the garden and the cow’s good will.
D A7
Summers were hot and winters were dry and
G D
Momma was old at thirty-five.
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
Well somebody told us that Wall Street had fell
G D
We were so damned poor that we couldn't even tell
D A7
Cotton was short and the weeds was tall
G D
Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all
[Chorus]
D A7
You sing a song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
D A7
I’m gone, now, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
Well momma got sick and daddy got down
G D
The county took the farm and we moved to town
D A7
Daddy got a job with the TVA
G D
We bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
Repeat chorus and end. The chorus can be repeated a capella and in harmony for a nice effect.
album. That’s where I learned it and that’s where the extra (second) verse comes from which was not included
by Alabama on their hit cover of this song. The ‘TVA’ mentioned in the last verse is the
‘Tennessee Valley Authority’.
SONG OF THE SOUTH
INTRO:
D///A7///G///D/// D///A7///G///D///
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
Cotton on the roadside, cotton in the ditch
G D
We all picked cotton but we never got rich
D A7
Daddy was a veteran, a Southern Democrat he said
G D
They oughta get the rich men to vote like that
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
When I was eighteen well I ate my fill
G D
We lived on the garden and the cow’s good will.
D A7
Summers were hot and winters were dry and
G D
Momma was old at thirty-five.
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
Well somebody told us that Wall Street had fell
G D
We were so damned poor that we couldn't even tell
D A7
Cotton was short and the weeds was tall
G D
Mr. Roosevelt was gonna save us all
[Chorus]
D A7
You sing a song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I hush my mouth
D A7
I’m gone, now, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
D A7
Well momma got sick and daddy got down
G D
The county took the farm and we moved to town
D A7
Daddy got a job with the TVA
G D
We bought a washing machine and then a Chevrolet
[Chorus]
D A7
Song, song of the south
G D
Sweet potato pie and I shut my mouth
D A7
Gone, gone with the wind
G D
There ain't nobody looking back again
Repeat chorus and end. The chorus can be repeated a capella and in harmony for a nice effect.
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