To get us back on track
 

Because I'm tired of just having just the first verse in my head

Ain't no use in complainin'

When you got a job to do

SPENT MY EVENINGS DOWN AT THE DRIVE IN.

When we say, stuff like being southern, etc. etc. we are not looking at it from a geographical point of view. being southern is a state of mine.....just as being Dixie is a state of mind. Florida is not southern...missouri is not southern....Texas, as much as I like it, is not southern. There are things about certain areas of the South...Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina....that set them apart from the rest, and none of you would understand.

Frattiest country...CSA

And that's where I met you
Yeah

I live in St. Louis now (and did for college too), after living mostly in the Chicago-area before college with a small stint in Boston after college.

While Missouri is not a 'southern state' in my mind the way that Alabama, Georgia, etc. are...a lot of midwesterners think of it as being 'South', since well, it is South of the upper midwest. And parts of Missouri, due to its closeness to places like Arkansas has some more 'Southern' qualities to it than say, Wisconsin or the Chicago-area.

South does not equal Southern. While you could argue that Missouri is in the 'South' more than it's in the 'Midwest' it is most certainly not 'Southern'.

If you travel like only twenty minutes outside of STL county or city, you'll here that country twang in peoples' voices. :o

Standing on your mother's porch

You can hear it right in St. Louis--my family for example. We call it the St. Louis drawl. LOL

A buddy of mine went to Lindenwood for a year out there and ahted it. He said they werent southern at all. Also I ahd a Southern Studies class with a girl from, I believe outside of KC. While they are on different sides of the state, she told me that the majority of the people she knew thought of Missouri as the Midwest, not the South. Im not saying that there arent southern people in Mizzou, but im saying its not a southern state.

I knew that it was now or never

those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69