Ever South chords by
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Intro 1

Verse 1
We packed our few
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belongings and we moved across the ocean
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To start a new life in this
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land so bold and vast
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Dispersed from Ellis Island,
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my distant Irish kin
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Eyes cut to the future,
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heart's tied to the past
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Verse 2
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We held tight to our loved ones
and we held on to the promise
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And we scraped our meager
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living hand to mouth
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We prayed to what would have us,
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every doubting John Thomas
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Spreading through the
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Appalachia ever south
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Spread through Appalachia ever south

Verse 3
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And I hear we weren't welcomed here,
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at least not in those days
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No one needs our drunken,
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fighting, thieving kind
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But we settled in this new place
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and we worked it in our ways
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And spread our kin upon it in due time
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Spread our kin upon it in due time

Verse 4
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And we fought our losing battles
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and we held onto our ways
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And we talk of how we left behind
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our better days
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Some were living lives of leisure,
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some surviving hand to mouth
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Bash our heads against the future,
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ever south
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Bash our heads against the future

Interlude 1

ever south

Verse 5
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When I set my sights upon you,
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we were both still in our prime
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We were moving in big circles
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that I sought out to combine
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And I held you in my arms and
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swore eternal love this time
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Tried to lasso brighter futures
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and let it drag us both behind
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Lasso brighter futures,
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let it drag us both behind
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Verse 6
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So we aimed our sights westward
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like so many did before
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Expanding our horizons to
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some distant shore
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Where everyone takes notice of
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the drawl that leaves our mouth
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So that no matter where we are
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we're ever south
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No matter where we are we're

Interlude 2

ever south

Verse 7
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Now my Christian Southern brethren
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will tell you all what for
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To keep your heathen ways up in you
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and your shoes outside the door
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Take your stand for noble causes till
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you just can't stand no more
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And surrender to some savior,
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praise the Lord
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Surrender to some savior,
praise the Lord
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Verse 8
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But despite our best intentions,
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it pains me to report
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We keep swinging for the fences,
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coming up a little short
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We sure can get it wrong
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for someone so devout
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I hear you whistling past
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the graveyard looking down
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Whistling past the graveyard

Interlude 3

looking down

Verse 9
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Ever Southern in my carriage,
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ever southern in my stance
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In the Irish of my complexion
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and the Scottish in my dance
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In the way I bang my head against
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my daily circumstance
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Verse 10
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Let this blue eyed southern devil
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take you out upon the prowl
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With decadence and charm
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we'll take it into town
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Tell you stories of our fathers and
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the glories of our house
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Always told a little slower,

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