Carolina Chocolate Drops - Country girl

^DmI was raised in the country that's a natural fact ^DmFood on the table from the garden out back ^CEveryone working to make the land their own ^GRed clay crackin' where the silver queen grows ^DmRunnin' with your cousins from yard to yard ^DmLivin' was easy but the playin' was hard ^CDidn't have much nothing comes for free ^GAll you needed was your family

^DmI am a country girl ^DmI've been around the world ^CAnd every place I've been ^GAin't quite ^Dnothin' like ^DmLivin' in the south ^DmI wanta shut your mouth ^CI am a country girl ^GI am a country girl

^DmBiscuits in the morning and gravy too ^DmFried chicken in the afternoon ^CJaw draggin' eatin' sweet potato pie ^GTakin' half an hour to say goodbye ^DmBlackberry patches scuffin' on by ^DmSweet Georgia peaches and dandelion wine ^CThe best kind of food is made by hand ^GThe only place to get it is from the land

^DmI am a country girl ^DmI've been around the world ^CAnd every place I've been ^GAin't quite ^Dnothin' like ^DmLivin' in the south ^DmI wanta shut your mouth ^CI am a country girl ^GI am a country girl

^DmAll day I dream about a place in the sun ^FKinda like where I'm from ^GWith the tall grass blowin' in the breeze ^DmRunnin' bare foot from the tall oak tree

^DmAll day I dream about a place I've been ^FA place where the skin I'm in ^GFeels like its supposed to be ^AAnd anyone around who looks at me says

^DmI am a country girl ^DmI've been around the world ^CAnd every place I've been ^GAin't quite ^Dnothin' like ^DmLivin' in the south ^DmI wanta shut your mouth ^CI am a country girl ^GI am a country girl

^DmI was raised in the country that's a natural fact ^DmOn these long city days I wanta look back ^CSee tobacco fields a row after row ^GRed clay a crackin' where the silver queen grows