[Verse 1] Red dirt caught in the seams of my old guitar case County fair dust and a two-lane kind of faith Dad's pocketknife, Mama's thermos of tea And a song I could barely keep in key [Verse 2] Now the rooms have velvet ropes and a thousand hands I wake up guessing which country I'm in again They know my name in places I can't pronounce But I still hear our screen door when the crowd dies down [Chorus] I've got country in my blood, Oklahoma in my bones A little windmill weather and the gravel roads back home I've crossed the wide blue water, played beneath strange skies But I miss the Friday lights and the fields at harvest time The miles may change a man, the miles may fill his cup But I can't leave that red dirt, it's country in my blood [Verse 3] There's a diner off the highway where they pour it black A faded team pennant hanging over the back My brother's laugh, my mother's garden gate The kind of welcome you don't have to earn or fake [Bridge] Fame put a passport in my coat And put new words inside my songs But every time I hear a train roll west I know exactly where I belong [Chorus] I've got country in my blood, Oklahoma in my bones A little windmill weather and the gravel roads back home I've crossed the wide blue water, played beneath strange skies But I miss the Friday lights and the fields at harvest time The miles may change a man, the miles may fill his cup But I can't leave that red dirt, it's country in my blood [Outro] When the last case is packed up And the last bright room goes dark I'll follow that old highway home With country in my heart
