The Charlie Daniels Band Songs - The South's Gonna Do It Again Lyrics

The Charlie Daniels Band - The South's Gonna Do It Again

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Album: Fire On The Mountain
Released: 1975

The South's Gonna Do It Again Lyrics

Well, the train to Grinder's Switch is runnin' right on time
And them Tucker Boys are cookin' down in Caroline
People down in Florida can't be still
When ol' Lynyrd Skynrd's pickin' down in Jacksonville
People down in Georgia come from near and far
To hear Richard Betts pickin' on that red guitar

So gather 'round, gather 'round chillin'
Get down, well just get down chillin'
Get loud, well you can be loud and be proud
Well you can be proud, hear now
Be proud you're a rebel
'Cause The South's Gonna Do It Again and again

Elvin Bishop sittin' on a bale of hay
He ain't good lookin', but he sure can play
And there's ZZ Top and you can't forget
That old brother Willie's gettin' soakin' wet
And all the good people down in Tennessee
Are diggin' barefoot Jerry and C.D.B

So gather 'round, gather 'round chillin'
Get down, well just get down chillin'
Get loud, well you can be loud and be proud
Well you can be proud, hear now
Be proud you're a rebel
'Cause the South's gonna do it again and again

Writer/s: DANIELS, CHARLES EDWARD
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

The South's Gonna Do It Again

The American South is the birthplace of the Southern Rock music genre. Charlie Daniels has worked with many of the Southern Rock bands that defined the sound. Says Daniels: "This song is just about a bunch of bands that we played with and enjoyed working with. We started in '74, we brought them out, and we worked with Marshall Tucker, and The Allman Brothers, and Lynyrd Skynyrd - our good old bunch. We all came up basically in the same kind of situation, and most of the guys that I wrote this song about we felt very close to. We felt a kinship to, a brotherhood sort of thing. So it's just a tribute song to the bands." (Check out our interview with Charlie Daniels.)

Named in the song are:
The Marshall Tucker Band (Spartanburg, SC)
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Jacksonville, FL)
Dickey Betts (from Allman Brothers Band)
Elvin Bishop (Glendale, CA)
ZZ Top (Houston, TX)
Wet Willie (Mobile, AL)
Barefoot Jerry (TN)
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Suggestion credit:
Aaron - Twin Cities, MN

The band Grinderswitch is mentioned in the opening line of the lyrics: "A train to Grinder's Switch is runnin' right on time." Grinderswitch was a Southern Rock band formed by Dru Lombar, Larry Howard, and Joe Dan Petty in middle Georgia. They recorded on the Capricorn label formed by Phil Walden in Macon, Georgia. They toured with The Allman Brothers Band, The Marshall Tucker Band, The Charlie Daniels Band and others in the early 1970s, and also played at Charlie Daniels' Volunteer Jam. Unfortunately, Joe Dan Petty, who was also a guitar tech for the Allman Brothers Band, passed away in 2000 and Dru Lombar passed away in 2005.