Goin' South chords by The Bashful Brothers

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Verse 1
G 
Em 
Am 
G 
C 
G 
D 
In
G 
Em 
C 
the city we raise a family
Em 
D 
in a four room walk up flat
Em 
C 
And all around there's drugs and violence
Em 
D 
But we're trying to do the best we can
Em 
And   Grandpa,
C 
who brought the family north
Em 
Curses the day he crossed
D 
the Miss Dixon line
Em 
He spent thirty -five years
C 
in a tool and dye shop
A 
Now his health is gone,
D 
he doesn't have a dime
G 
So he's going south,
Em 
he's going back to
Am 
D 
The Georgia hills to start again
G 
Where a man can stand tall
Em 
with his wife and children
Am 
C 
And believe the old ways
D 
G 
will always guide them

Interlude 1

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Verse 2
Em 
C 
And Grandpa tells the children
Em 
D 
Of growing up on the family farm
Em 
C 
All around were fields and forests
Em 
D 
A thousand acres for a yard
Em 
C 
And he tells them of the river
Em 
D 
Where the water runs clear and cold
Em 
For a thousand years through
C 
a world of changes
A 
D 
From a small spring the river flows
G 
Em 
We're going south, we're going back to
Am 
The Georgia hills to start again
D 
G 
Where a man can stand and talk
Em 
with his wife and children
Am 
C 
And believe the old ways
D 
G 
Em 
C 
will always guide them
Em 
D 
Em 
C 
A 
D 
G 
We're go ing south,
Em 
Am 
we're going back to the Georgia hills
D 
to start again,
G 
where a man can stand tall
Em 
with his wife and children
Am 
C 
And believe the old ways
D 
will always guide them
G 
We're going south
Em 
Am 
We're going back to the Georgia hills
D 
To start again
G 
Where a man can stand tall
Em 
with his wife and children
Am 
And believe the old ways
D 
will always guide them
G 
We're going south,
Em 
Am 
we're going back to the Georgia hills
D 
to start again.
G 
Where a man can stand tall
Em 
with his wife and children
Am 
and believe the old ways
D 
will always guide them.
G 
We're go ing south,
Em 
Am 
we're going back to the Georgia hills
D 
to start again.
where a man can stand tall
with his wife and children.