Capo II 
Intro:  D D G D A G D 
  
D 
I grew up poor on an old dirt lot,  
 
half a mile from the nearest black top 
   G 
my daddy got it cheap use to be a land fill,  
D 
he helped to buy it on the G.I. Bill 
D 
life was slow on the reservation,  
 
there on the edge of the Sac and Fox Nation 
G                                      D 
watchin the cars go by as the sun went down,  
      A                         G                       D 
and I dreamed about a life far away from this red dirt town 
 
 
I remember the day I turned eighteen,  
I hitched a ride to the Dairy Queen 
it was right across the street from the old bus stop,  
mama begged me not to leave but I could not stop 
ticket in hand and ready for adventure,  
felt like a slave released from indenture 
I'd come this far, too far to turn back now 
and I got away as fast as I could from this red dirt town 

Bm                 G 
Gets in your blood, gets on your boots 
D 
it's hard to shake the dirt from your roots 
Bm                        G                   A 
you can tell by the way I look and the way I sound 
 G                    D 
I come from a red dirt town  
 
I was headed for the promise land,  
the big city's where I'd make my stand 
by the time I reached the coast I was gatherin dust,  
after three long days on a Grey Hound bus 
But, the grass didn't seem as green, as it did on the movie screen 
those streets of gold were boarded up and run down,  
and I missed my life back home in that red dirt town 
 
Chorus 
 
Instrumental:  F#m G D F#m G A 
 
Wasn't long till I was down and out,  
guess Mama knew what she was talkin about 
when she said there's nothin worse than bein alone,  
seventeen hundred miles away from home 
When I couldn't last another day,  
I made the hardest call I ever had to make 
Mama picked up the phone, and that's when I just broke down 
and she said son you can always come home to this red dirt town 
 
(Chorus) 
 
Theres a walkdown at the chorus to go to the Bm, and the intros not to hard to  
figure out but I didn't tab it out here.