Tanya Tucker - I believe the south is going to rise again

^CMama never had a flower ^Fgarden Cause ^G7cotton grew right up to our front ^Cdoor

Daddy never went on a va^Fcation He ^G7died a tired old man at forty-^Cfour

Our neighbors in the big house called us ^Fredneck Cause ^G7we lived in a poor sharecropper ^Cshack

The Jackson's down the road were poor like ^Fwe were ^G7But our skin was white and their was ^Cblack

But I believe the south is ^Gmgonna rise a^Cgain But ^Fnot the way we ^E7thought it would back ^Amthen

^FI mean every^G7body hand in ^Amhand ^FI be^Clieve the south is ^G7gonna rise a^Cgain

I see wooded parks and big sky^Fscrapers Where ^G7dirty rundown shack stood once ^Cbefore

I see sons and daughter and share^Fcroppers ^G7But they're not picking cotton ^Canymore

But more important I see human ^Fkindness As we ^G7forget the bad and keep the ^Cgood

A brand new breeze is blowing cross the ^Fsouthland ^G7And I see a brand new kind of brother^Chood

But I believe the south is ^Gmgonna rise a^Cgain But ^Fnot the way we ^E7thought it would back ^Amthen

^FI mean every^G7body hand in ^Amhand ^FI be^Clieve the south is ^G7gonna rise a^Cgain