Down Home

Just off of the beaten path

A little dot on a state road map

That's where I was

Born and where I'll die

Things move at a slower pace

Nobody's in the rat race

And these days that's

A special way of life

Down home where they know

You by name and treat you like family

Down home

A man's good word and a hand

Shake are all you need

Folks know if they're fallin'

On hard times they

Can fall back on

Those of us raised up

Down home

In the corner of the hardware store

Gathered 'round a checkerboard

Old men tellin' lies

And crowning kings

Kids drivin' down the old town

Square tops rolled down

In the cool night air

Go and see what's

Shakin' at the dairy queen

Down home

Where they know you by

Name and treat you like family

Down home a man's good

Word and a hand

Shake are all you need

Folks know if they're fallin'

On hard times they can fall back on

Those of us raised up

Down home

When I was a boy

I couldn't wait to

Leave this place

But now I want to see my

Children raised down home

Down home folks know

If they're fallin' on hard times

They can fall back on

Those of us raised up

Down home

Where they know you by

Name and treat you like family

Down home a man's good

Word and a hand shake

Are all you need

Folks know if they're fallin'

On hard times they

Can fall back on

Those of us raised up

Down home down home

Way down home

Down home