[ti:Where I'm From] [ar:Jason Michael Carroll] [al:Growing Up Is Getting Old] [00:-2.00]Jason Michael Carroll - Where I'm From [00:-1.00] [00:00.00] [00:14.00]On a three hour flight from Memphis to LA [00:20.28]I was silently celebrating my first class upgrade [00:27.12]Laughing at my jeans and my boots [00:32.65]Beside those high dollar shoes and Armani suits [00:39.62]When the gentleman next to me said the drinks up here are free [00:45.36]So if you'd like the first one can be on me [00:51.91]He said i'm headin back from business in New York and Rome [00:58.44]Tell me son, Where do you call home [01:03.57] [01:03.96]I said I'm from the front pew of a wooden white church [01:08.63]The courthouse clock it still don't work [01:11.77]Where a man's word means everything [01:18.13]Where moms and dads were high school flings [01:21.30]Gave their children grandmothers maiden name [01:24.72]Yes it may not sound like much [01:29.15]But it's where I'm from [01:35.36] [01:37.30]So we drank that round and then another [01:43.21]There wasn't a topic in this world we did not cover [01:49.55]He said I headed out west when I was barely 19 [01:56.44]Just a kid chasing my dreams [02:02.00]I said I'm flying out here to pick up my big brother [02:08.71]He's been fighting the cancer they discovered [02:15.63]But he called last night and said I think this is the end [02:21.03]So come take me home to my family and my friends [02:26.93] [02:27.42]Where the quarterback dates the homecoming queen [02:31.88]The truck's a ford and the tractor's green [02:34.91]And Amazing Grace is what we sing [02:41.18]Well there's a county fair every fall [02:44.48]And your friends are there every time you call [02:47.66]Yeah it may not sound like much but it's [02:53.18]Where I'm from [02:58.37] [03:00.48]And as we stood to claim the bags we checked [03:03.98]He said I'll pray for your brother and did I mention that [03:07.45]Italian suits haven't always been my style [03:12.77]See I was quarterback of my high school team [03:16.53]We took state back in '63 [03:19.57]And my wife, she's still my homecoming queen [03:28.61] [03:28.97]Cause I'm from the front pew of a wooden white church [03:32.53]A courthouse clock that still dont work [03:35.82]Where a man's word means everything [03:41.82]Where moms and dads wear high school flings [03:45.34]Gave their children grandmothers maiden name [03:48.88]Yes it may not sound like much [03:54.03]I said it may not sound like much but it's where i'm from [04:07.04]it's where i'm from [04:13.56]It's where I'm from [04:17.48]Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound...... [04:25.24]