Deep down in the pines where the world has forgotten was still alive,
where the dirt roads twist along for no more than a mile,
where the old man’s bar marks the center of town and the county was never dry,
where the people will go, where the people will stay,
where they live until they die.
Well I knew a guy, his name was Ricky McCoy,
an ass kicking bass fishing good ol’ boy.
And he can build a fire in 10 seconds flat,
and he can ride a bull even longer than that.
Well he was only 15 when he dropped out of school.
he said "I never been a genius, but I ain’t no fool.
I know what I want, and I’mma get it in life
and I ain’t never gonna leave this place."
He said, "Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place,
it’s where I’s born, it’s where I’s raised.
And when I’m old on my dying bed
I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head.
I got me a town I can call my home,
I got me a place I can call my own.
I told you once and I’mma say it again
I ain’t never gonna leave this place."
Well Jessie was a young girl who grew up fast.
She used to make her money lying down on her back.
Her daddy drank whiskey till he’s numb in the head,
he’d beat her every night until the day he was dead.
Well she was just an only child with nowhere to go
in the same square mile where her seeds were sewn.
"If there’s more to life, I guess I’ll never know
'cause I ain’t ever gonna leave this place."
She said, "Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place,
it’s where I’s born, it’s where I’s raised.
And when I’m old on my dying bed
I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head.
I got me a town I can call my home,
I got me a place I can call my own.
I told you once and I’mma say it again
I ain’t never gonna leave this place."
"Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place,
it’s where I’s born, it’s where I’s raised.
And when I’m old on my dying bed
I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head.
I got me a town I can call my home,
I got me a place I can call my own.
I told you once and I’mma say it again
I ain’t never gonna leave this place."
"Man I ain’t never gonna leave this place,
it’s where I’s born, it’s where I’s raised.
And when I’m old on my dying bed
I pray this is where I’m gonna lay my head.
I got me a town I can call my home,
I got me a place I can call my own.
I told you once and I’mma say it again
I ain’t never gonna leave this place."