D G D G D D Oh Lord won't you let me stay in the place where I was born? D In the fields Granddaddy tilled and all my seeds are sown G E Ain't no love for a poor dirt farmer genuine son of the south G D D And the water's high and the bills are too and the levy tumbling down E G Daddy owed the banker man E G So we was drowning before the flood E G That river washed us all away E G Left us right here in the mud D G D G Yeah in the mud D G D D We built this house upon the Mississippi back in 1879 D G D G Over a hundred years my family's been here barely scraping by D We just some good old country folks just trying to weather the G storm D How we gonna pay when the interest rates done got higher than the corn? E G Ain't no man gonna take it away E G 'Cause it's deep down in my blood E G Step across that old property line E And you'll die G Right here in the mud D G D G Yeah in the mud [Solo] D G x5 D G E D D A D A D A D E G [Verse] D E Who's this creeping through the sticks G E Let me talk at 'em with my thirty ought six D E A couple city guys with suits and ties G Bet they can't feel this crosshair right between their eyes D E I got no place to go and no place to run G Just a dirt farmer's boy with his Granddaddy's gun D E Step across that line I'm gonna tell you son G D G D We're all gonna die right here in the mud G D G D G Yeah in the mud [Outro] D G D G D G D G D G E D