Take Me Back - Cypress Spring, Demun Jones, Craig Campbell

Take me back to them

Cotton fields and barb wired fences

All the things that I’m missin'

Dirt ridin' and nighttime fishin'

Hit the river and take a dip

And I don’t know why I wanted to leave

Something that means so much to me

I guess it’s what it took for me to see

No matter where I roam the only place I call home

Is in the country

Way out in the country

Huntin', fishin', that’s just how we lived

In homes, valley back to my beginin'

Learn the skill of skinin'

vine filled with thorns

We was hidin' in a farm

Pond filled with snakes and gators we was divin' in

Ain’t nothin' to a country boy

Only fear the good Lord and a mama, boy

Drive big trucks like a Tonka toy

You know them country girls to love a country boy

We can get litty on outside of the city

Dance in front of the lights on an F250

Windows down crankin' Conway Twitty

Takein' me back to them

Cotton fields and barb wired fences

All the things that I’m missin'

Dirt ridin' and nighttime fishin'

Hit the river and take a dip

And I don’t know why I wanted to leave

Something that means so much to me

I guess it’s what it took for me to see

No matter where I roam the only place I call home

Is in the country

Let me get the picture real quick

So maybe y’all will understand

Where I grew up on that family land

Papa passed it down to my old man

Now that’s where he rocks

Back and forth on that front porch

Hoo owl off in the distance

Moonlight bright as a tiki torch

Bonfires and some stinky weed

Moonshine and old oak trees

Fish jumpin' up out the creek

Honey suckles and bumble bees

This is my place (My place)

This is my home (My home)

No matter I go take me, take me, take me, take me

Take me back to them

Cotton fields and barb wired fences

All the things that I’m missin'

Dirt ridin' and nighttime fishin'

Hit the river and take a dip

And I don’t know why I wanted to leave

Something that means so much to me

I guess it’s what it took for me to see

No matter where I roam the only place I call home

Is in the country

Y’all know 'bout where I was raised

Where we pay respects and say grace

The name chiseled on local tombs and graves

Jones County the place where I was saved

A book of sentences I’ve written for miles

Like scripture since I was a child

Pops laid block but for hours

A strong foundation to stand up on and climb

Each breath taken I could feel the light

Shinin' the songs I sing way back in the pines

The memories made always outlast the pain

The hourglass drains, I count the grain

Lookin' back now I stop and think

How long it’ll last, gone in a blink

A kid raised up

Lord take me, take me

Take me back to them

Cotton fields and barb wired fences

All the things that I’m missin'

Dirt ridin' and nighttime fishin'

Hit the river and take a dip

And I don’t know why I wanted to leave

Something that means so much to me

I guess it’s what it took for me to see

No matter where I roam the only place I call home

Is in the country