I Believe The South Is Going To Rise Again(Chords)

	        
C                       F 
Mama never had a flower garden  

      G7                                C 
Cause cotton grew right up to our front door 

                        F 
Daddy never went on a vacation  

   G7                            C 
He died a tired old man at forty-four 


                                         F 
Our neighbors in the big house called us redneck 

      G7                              C 
Cause we lived in a poor sharecropper shack 

                                           F 
The Jackson's down the road were poor like we were 

G7                                   C 
But our skin was white and their was black 


                           Gm          C 
But I believe the south is gonna rise again 

    F              E7                    Am 
But not the way we thought it would back then 

F           G7           Am 
I mean everybody hand in hand  

F   C                  G7          C 
I believe the south is gonna rise again 


                              F 
I see wooded parks and big skyscrapers  

      G7                             C 
Where dirty rundown shack stood once before 

                                 F 
I see sons and daughter and sharecroppers  

G7                             C 
But they're not picking cotton anymore 


                               F 
But more important I see human kindness  

      G7                          C 
As we forget the bad and keep the good 

                                        F 
A brand new breeze is blowing cross the southland 

G7                                   C 
And I see a brand new kind of brotherhood 


                           Gm          C 
But I believe the south is gonna rise again 

    F              E7                    Am 
But not the way we thought it would back then 

F           G7           Am 
I mean everybody hand in hand  

F   C                  G7          C 
I believe the south is gonna rise again
	        

Written by Bobby Braddock