Maybe we’ll make Texas by the morning
Light the bayou with our taillights in the night
Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line
And we never had the money for the flight
In the back seat, sleepy from the travel
We played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans
And dirty from the diesel fumes, drinking coffee black
And the first breath of Texas comes in clean

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And there’s something about the south land in the springtime
Where the waters flow with confidence and reason
Though I miss her when I’m gone
It won’t ever be too long
Till I’m home again to spend my favorite season
When God made me born a Yankee, he was teasing
There’s no place like home and none more pleasing
Than the south land in the springtime

In Georgia, nights are softer than a whisper
Beneath a quilt somebody’s mother made by hand
With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations
And the peach trees stitched across the land
There’ll be cider up near Helen off the roadside
And boiled peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers
And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky
With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers
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