When your wheelhouse is the land of cotton
The first time you leave it can be strange, it can be shocking

Not everybody drives a truck, not everybody drinks sweet tea
Not everybody owns a gun, wears a ball cap boots and jeans
Not everybody goes to church or watches every NASCAR race
Not everybody knows the words to Ring Of Fire or Amazing Grace

Oh, Dixie Land
I hope you understand
When I miss my Tennessee home
And I've been away, way too long
And I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern Comfort zone

I have walked the streets of Rome, I have been to foreign lands
I know what it's like to talk and have nobody understand
I have seen the Eiffel Tower lit up on a Paris night
I have kissed a West Coast girl underneath the Northern Lights
I know what it's like to be (I know what it's like)
The only one like me (the only one like me)
To take a good hard look around and be in the minority

And I miss my Tennessee home
But I can see the ways that I've grown
And I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern Comfort zone

I miss your biscuits and your gravy
Fireflies dancing in the night
You have fed me, you have saved me
Billy Graham and Martha White

But I've since become a drifter
And I just can't wait to pack
'Cause I know the road I leave on
It will always bring me back

(I wish I was in Dixie away)

And I miss my Tennessee home
And I've been away, way too long
But I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern Comfort zone

Look away, look away

(I wish I was in Dixie away, look away)
(I wish I was in the land of cotton)
(What are we having for supper? Well you an aunt B's having fried chicken)
(You live in the power of that truth, because some of us are on a journey)
(And you won't be able to stay here, you'll be called to far away places)
(Maybe even a foreign land)
(We're not sure where you're listening, but it's a beautiful night)
(In Nashville, Tennessee and we're delighted to have you tuned in)
(Live and die in Dixie, in Dixie)

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Writer(s): Brad Douglas Paisley, Charles Christopher Du Bois, John Kelley Lovelace