It Ain't Home - Charlie Farley

Home ain’t found in a pot of gold

So I quit chasing rainbows

If it ain’t a small town with a dirt road

To take me home, to take me far away

From the fast life and city lights

I need a moonlit night on a side by side

Like my cellphone, I may roam

But I won’t be gone long

Cause it ain’t home

East to the west coast, I’ve rocked shows

In some of the most beautiful places you can go

Saw Florida mangoes, potatoes in Idaho

Even skied slopes when it was below zero

I rode the polar express with my kids in Durango

Got drunk at Myrtle Beach 'bout had me a heat stroke

Went back to shower off, made a couple of mixed tapes

Smoked some trees, shot the breeze and was on my way

Sixteen hours later, straight drove all through the night

Just to arrive and sleep all day

At least Imma sleep alright

They call me turn around Charlie

I don’t like being gone

I always turn around 'cause I know that

Home ain’t found in a pot of gold

So I quit chasing rainbows

If it ain’t a small town with a dirt road

To take me home, to take me far away

From the fast life and city lights

I need a moonlit night on a side by side

Like my cellphone, I may roam

But I won’t be gone long

Cause it ain’t home

You can say there’s more to do and see

Taller trees or tasting your collard greens

And I ain’t gone say that you’re wrong

I’ll only say, that it ain’t home

You can tell me

That I can’t make twice the dirt

You’re right I supposed but I can’t sell a soul that I don’t own

What you mean?

Man, it just ain’t home

Look, I know there’s prettier places

Friendlier faces

More money to be made if I just moved away

But I can’t

It’s got all of me, I’ll always be

Country with no apology

Home ain’t found in a pot of gold

So I quit chasing rainbows

If it ain’t a small town with a dirt road

To take me home, to take me far away

From the fast life and city lights

I need a moonlit night on a side by side

Like my cellphone, I may roam

But I won’t be gone long

Cause it ain’t home