Where I'm From

On a three-hour flight from Memphis to LA

I was silently celebrating my first-class upgrade

Laughin' at my jeans and my boots

Beside those high dollar shoes and Armani suits

When the gentleman next to me said the drinks up here are free

So if you'd like the first one can be on me

He said, "I'm heading back from business in New York and Rome"

Tell me son, where do you call home?

I said I'm from the front pew of a wooden white church

A court house clock that still don't work

Where a man's word means everything

Where moms and dads were high school flames

Gave their children grandmothers' maiden name

Yes it may not sound like much

But that's where I'm from

So we drank that round and then another

There wasn't a topic in this world we did not cover

He said, "I headed out west when I was barley nineteen"

"Just a kid, chasing my dreams"

And I said, "I'm flying out here to pick up my big brother"

He's been fighting the cancer they discovered

But he called last night and said I think this is the end

So come take me home to my family and my friends

Where the quarterback dates the homecoming queen

The trucks are ford and the tractors green

And amazing grace is what we'd sing

Where there's a county fair every fall

And your friends are there no matter when you call

Yeah it may not sound like much

But it's where I'm from

And as we stood to claim the bags we checked

He said, "I'll pray for your bother and did I mention"

"That Italian suits haven't always been my style?"

See I was the quarterback of my high school team

We took state back in '63

And my wife, well she still my homecoming queen

'Cause I'm from the front pew of a wooden white church

A court house clock that still don't work

Where a man's word means everything

Where moms and dads were high school flames

Gave their children grandmothers' maiden name

Yes it may not sound like much

I said it may not sound like much

But it's where I'm from (amazing grace)

It's where I'm from (how sweet the sound)

It's where I'm from (amazing grace)

How sweet the sound (amazing grace)