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Well, this life that I've live has took me everywhere
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
But it's kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well, there just ain't no place like home
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free?
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee?
And, Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
Would you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'?
Would you like to see a youngin' with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin'?
Well, you better listen to my song
And, Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
Yes but I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well, you can take a boy out of ol' dixieland
Lord but you'll never take ol' dixie from a boy
And, Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
Yes but I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
But it's kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well, there just ain't no place like home
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free?
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee?
And, Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
Would you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'?
Would you like to see a youngin' with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin'?
Well, you better listen to my song
And, Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
Yes but I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well, you can take a boy out of ol' dixieland
Lord but you'll never take ol' dixie from a boy
And, Lord, I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
Yes but I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord, take me and mine before that comes
Lyrics submitted by magicnudiesuit
Track duration: 04:23
"All I Can Do is Write About It" as written by Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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As for the song, it's easily one of my favorites. I live in rural South Florida, and I love just riding around the backroads alongside the cow pastures, cane fields, flag ponds, cypress swamps, and rivers. I only live about an hour from Miami and the handful of times that I went, I could not get home soon enough. The South is a beautiful place, which happens to get very little snow (or in my case, no snow at all). Because of that, we have to deal with the whole "second northern invasion" on our homeland. Every time you turn around, a beautiful piece of land is being torn down for housing and business. That could be acceptable if it were done only because people needed a place to live, but when the majority of the people moving here already have a hometown (they just don't like the weather there), then it really bites my ass. The little town I live in will probably end up the same way about ten years from now, so I might move up to the panhandle somewhere. After that, I'm staying put, and as Ronnie said, I hope that concrete doesn't start creepin' up there before I'm gone.
but you'll never take ole Dixie from a boy"
Man I love this song. It makes me thankful to be living in the country.
I pretty much live in the country anyways, but this song makes me want to move further out in the country, too :)
The song anyway, is a wonderful plea for attention to be drawn to nature. Ronnie really cared and this song shows it. No musicians nowadays would write something like this.