Butch Hancock - I Grew To Be A Stranger lyrics

I was born on a farm and I was raised up near the ground I lived that way a few years till my family moved to town I went to school but no one knew what I was speaking of When I said I was stranger in the land that I love I went on up to college and I studied like a fool They said I had potential and a little bit of promise too But I learned the things they taught me from below and from above And I grew to be a stranger in the city that I love So I left home to ramble, and I rambled east and west Some places I was cursed, and in some others I was blessed But I saw our nation quarreling, k**ing hawks and k**ing doves I grew to be a stranger in the country that I love So one day in my rambles I come back to my hometown Everybody acted like I'd always been around Well this world has come to think it knows the things I'm thinking of But I've grown to be a stranger on a planet that I love