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SOUTHERN ACCENTS Lyrics
Artist: Tom Petty (Buy Tom Petty CDs)
Album: Pack Up The Plantation
There's a southern accent, where I come from
The young'uns call it country
The yankees call it dumb
I got my own way of talkin'
But everything is done, with a southern accent
Where I come from
Now that drunk tank in Atlanta's
Just a motel room to me
Think I might go work Orlando
If them orange groves don't freeze
I got my own way of workin'
But everything is run, with a southern accent
Where I come from
For just a minute there I was dreaming
For just a minute it was all so real
For just a minute she was standing there, with me
There's a dream I keep having
Where my mama comes to me
And kneels down over by the window
And says a prayer for me
I got my own way of prayin'
But everyone's begun
With a sou thern accent
Where I come from
I got my own way of livin'
But everything gets done
With a southern accent
Where I come from
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Comments/Interpretations
this is a beautiful song. i love it
absolutely beautiful and i'm a yankee =)
I LOVE TOM PETTY
Grace and beauty - makes me proud to be a Southerner
the album is southern accents not pack up the plantation live
as a rebel in maine i find this song so evocative of my youth, of place,and time. a few beers late at night and my momma says a prayer for me.
Tom Petty is the best! I love him. I love this song it's beautiful.
just a fantastic song. incredible lyrics...my favorite of the large TP catalog.
I love tom Petty too but it was Johnny Cash who wrote the lyrics.
My first cassette was Damn The Torpedos..My Mom said "Well that looks like somebody youd bring home" Dont I wish I could..and Johnny Cash covered Southern Accents..Tom wrote it.
Tom, wrote it and if you can see the heart in this song you have lived those words...I know I felt them...and Lived them..no matter your race...If you're from an area that carries this theme you knoe and I am sure like me Love it as well...
i hate that friggin song it sucks and the southerners' way of talking isnt even right so shut ur frekin mouth wih that freakin song- a smat,free,northern YANKEE
@u suck ass
Never was a name usermore appropriate in your case.
This is a fantastic song and if you can't see this then you really are a saddo.
And I aint even American!!
These lyrics are truly a glimpse into the sole a artist who's not afraid to express his heartfelt emotions and speaks the words that so many of us have personally felt and can immediately relate to.
"The most beautiful song i've heard in years. Only heard it for the first time, two weeks ago. Great band, I do posess a couple of Tom Petty albums by the way.
The lyrics are beautifully done. Its about being a southerner only in the most superficial sense. It's really about the most durable kinds of love: the love we all have for our homeland and the love a parent has for a child.
No matter how despised (or despicable) you may be, or how impoverished the land of your birth, love will endure.
"Yankees call it dumb", usuckass.
God bless Tom Petty
Rocked my 2 month old grandaughter in my arms while singing this to her. She likes Tom Petty already. Love this song.
God I love this song and the man who wrote it! Lord, help me!
His statement of emotional openness makes me start to cry.
If you can't relate to his humble
attitude and general acknowledgment
of accepting unconditional love, you need to listen a little harder.
Simply put so well.