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Southern Accents

There's a southern accent, where I come from
The young 'uns call it country, the yankees call it dumb
I got my own way of talking, but everything gets done

With a southern accent, where I come from
Now that drunk tank in Atlanta, is just a motel room to me
Think I might go work Orlando, if them orange groves don't freeze

Got my own way of working, but everything is run
With a southern accent, where I come from

For just a minute there I was dreaming
For just a minute it was all so real
For just a minute she was standing there, with me

There's a dream I keep having, where my momma comes to me
And kneels down over by the window, and says a prayer for me
Got my own way of praying, but everything's begun
With a southern accent, where I come from

Got my own way of living, but everything is done
With a southern accent, where I come from

Tom Petty ©1984

[stand watie]

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[Moose4]

Heyull yeah, y'all.

}:-)4

[Tax-chick]

I love Johnny Cash's recording of that song. Of course, Tom Petty was one of JC's common-law-sons-in-law. Gosh, I miss John and June! I checked out her last record from the library a few weeks ago. My daughter wants me to buy it!

[Wampus SC]

I've liked that song since the first time I heard it.

It's interesting to see how they think we sound up there in the benighted north...