VERSE 1   The back roads of this county   Cross like the laces on my boots   And I’ve been running ‘em down   Since I was able to   I left home at nineteen,   Swore I was never coming back   Nights like this I wish   That’s where I was at   CHORUS   Slow pokin’ down a blacktop, cutting tires on the white rock   There’s a party on a dead end road   We’re just hoping that the cops don’t show   Somebody is looking for a fight   It’s gonna be that kind of night   When I get too far from home   I go find me a back road   VERSE 2   I remember the summer, that I turned sixteen   I made out with a girl, in the back of her hatchback Chevrolet   And I drank my first beer, on the Louisiana state line   My first night to see the other side   CHORUS   BRIDGE   I heard ‘em tell me, son don’t forget where you came from   And I never have, and I still like to beat that drum   From the river bottoms, to the tall pine trees   It will forever be right here inside of me   CHORUS