C
Hot afternoon sometime in June
F
Sitting on the front porch waiting on the moon
C G7
Talking to my neighbor next door ain’t never ever very much fun
C F
Go get my car and my guitar ride through town with the top down
C G7
Maybe I could buy me some beer run out and look at the farms
F G7 C
And they call it the south it’s the land of the free
G7 C
It lost the only war it ever fought in history
F G7 C
But I love the south it’s the land of the free
F G7
It’s the land of hush your mouth and Joe South
C
And that’s home to me
F
She was born in ’52 she finished in a Mississippi school
C G7
And something about her smile that turns you on
C
She’s different like another world
F
And you can tell she’s not a New York girl
C G7
And something about her kiss that takes you home
F G7 C
But she was born in the south Memphis Tennessee
G7 C
She was rich in looks from a poor Memphis family
F G7 C
But she will stay in the south it’s the land of the free
F G7
It’s the land of hush your mouth and Joe South
C
And that’s home to me
F
California I love you your hills are high and your oceans blue
C G7
In LA there’s always something to do and you’re never alone
C F
But I like fall and I like spring I love snow and I love rain
C G7
And there’s something about LA I can’t call home
F G7 C
I guess I’ll stay in the south it’s the land of the free
G7 C
It lost the only war it ever fought in history
F G7 C
But I love the south it’s the land of the free
F G7
It’s the land of hush your mouth Joe South
C
And that’s home to me
F G7 C
And they call it the south it’s the land of the free
G7 C
It lost the only war it ever fought in history