Alan Jackson

Released: July 5, 2012

Featuring: Zac Brown

Songwriter: Alan Jackson

Producer: Keith Stegall

[Chorus: Alan Jackson]
I was born on the Dixie Highway
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised on the Dixie Highway
No sweeter place you’ll ever find

[Verse 1: Alan Jackson]
Wood frame house and gravel driveway
Willow trees and old front porch
Just outside the city limits
Down on the Highway 34

[Chorus: Alan Jackson]
Yeah I was born on the Dixie Highway
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised on the Dixie Highway
No sweeter place you’ll ever find
You won't never find it

[Instrumental Break]
Get another Georgia Boy, come on in here Zac

[Verse 2: Zac Brown]
And having tobacco growing on the roadside
Rolled it up and we smoked it down
Don’t do much, but it makes you feel big
When you’re ten years old in a tiny town

[Chorus: Zac Brown]
I was born on the Dixie Highway
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised on the Dixie Highway
No sweeter place you’ll ever find

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3: Alan Jackson]
Have a chicken pen right in the backyard
Clothes line running east to west
Butter bean and tomato garden
Six days and a Sunday rest

[Chorus: Alan Jackson & Zac Brown]
Yeah I was born (I was born) on the Dixie Highway (Dixie Highway)
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised (I was raised) on the Dixie Highway (Dixie Highway)
No sweeter place you’ll ever find
Aww let's get it

[Instrumental Break]
Woo
Aww good Zac do another one now

[Verse 4: Zac Brown]
Summertime, hot and hazy
Bare feet and a water hose
Melon rind on a country table
Lightning bugs when the sun goes down

[Chorus: Zac Brown & Alan Jackson]
I was born (Yeah I was born) on the Dixie Highway (Way down in Dixie)
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised (Yeah I was raised) on the Dixie Highway (On the Dixie Highway)
No sweeter place you’ll ever find (Oh yeah)

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 5]
And the holy ghost on Sunday morning
Gospel songs and the Bible read
Sunday lunch at momma’s table
Thank the Lord and break the bread

[Chorus: Alan Jackson & Zac Brown]
Yeah I was born (I was born) on the Dixie Highway (Dixie Highway)
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised (I was raised) on the Dixie Highway (Dixie Highway)
No sweeter place you’ll ever find
Aww yeah

[Instrumental Break]
That's the way momma liked it
Oh good Zac, do another now

[Verse 6: Zac Brown]
Screened in porch right at the backdoor
Washing machine and an old wood stove
Momma’s singing in the kitchen, rolling homemade biscuit dough

[Chorus: Alan Jackson & Zac Brown]
Yeah I was born (I was born) on the Dixie Highway (Dixie Highway)
Red clay and Georgia pines
Yeah, I was raised (I was raised) on the Dixie Highway (Dixie Highway)
No sweeter place you’ll ever find
Aww pick it

[Instrumental Break]
Well we gonna break down this thing good

[Verse 7: Alan Jackson]
When I’m old and Heaven’s calling
And they come to carry me away
Just lay me down, down in south land
Bury me in the Georgia clay

[Chorus: Alan Jackson & Zac Brown]
Yeah I was born on the Dixie Highway
Red clay and Georgia pines
I was raised (Yeah, I was raised) on the Dixie Highway
No sweeter place you’ll ever find
No sweeter place you’ll ever find
No sweeter place you’ll ever find

[Outro]
We love you Dixie, Amen

Alan Eugene Jackson was born October 17, 1958 in Newnan, Georgia to Joseph Eugene “Daddy Gene” and Ruth Musick “Mama Ruth” Jackson. He has four older sisters, Diane; twins Cathy & Carol and Connie. He attended Elm Street Elementary School and Newnan High School in Newnan, GA and also attended one year at West Georgia College. Alan married Denise on December 15, 1979. They have three daughters. Mattie Denise was born June 19, 1990; Alexandra Jane “Ali” was born August 23, 1993 and Dani Grace was born August 28, 1997. The 6'4" country music singer-songwriter is known for blending honky-tonk and mainstream country sounds. He also writes many of his own songs. To date, he’s released over 15 albums.

Jackson has sold over 80 million records, and more than 50 of his singles having appeared on Billboard’s “Top 40 Country Songs”. He’s won two Grammys and 16 CMA Awards.

He is known for “I’d Love You All Over Again”, “Country Boy”, “I Don’t Even Know Your Name”, and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)”.

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