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 been away way too long
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 meet the only one like me
To take a good hard look around and be a minority
And I miss my Tennessee home
I can see the ways that I grown
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 and saved me
Billy Graham and Martha White
I have since become a gypsy
And I just can't wait to pack
'Cause I know the route I leave on
It will always bring me back
I wish I was in Dixie again
I miss my Tennessee home
I've been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern comfort zone
Look away, look away
Oh, Dixie Land
I hope you understand
When I miss my Tennessee home
And I been away way too long
I can't see this world unless I go
Outside my Southern comfort zone
I wish I was in Dixie, away, look away