I grew up on Merle Haggard, ZZ Top and CDB   And if that Freebird wasn’t soarin   Y’all would have never heard of me   Turn up Bocephus on the radio   Marshall Tucker now can’t you see      Chorus:   You can take me out the country   But you’ll never take the country out of me      Can’t go a day without Waylon Jennings   And the red haired stranger’s on mind   Johnny Cash and Jimmy Rogers   JJ Cale and old John Prine   My Sweet Melissa keeps on callin’   Take a load off Annalee      I ain’t never been to Heaven   But I hear it’s just the same as Tennessee      (Solo)      Now my face might seem familiar   You see me smiling on T.V.   They might take me out to L.A.   But they’ll never take sweet Dixieland from me   They might take me out the country   But they’ll never take the country out of me   If you didn’t know that I was country   Alabama’s always home to me