Southern Accents

About Southern Accents

Southern Accents is the sixth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records. The album's lead single, "Don't Come Around Here No More", co-written by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics, peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Its music video featured Alice in Wonderland imagery. The song "Southern Accents" was later covered by Johnny Cash for his Unchained album in 1996.

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1985

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There's a southern accent, where I come from 
The young 'uns call it country 
The Yankees call it dumb 
I got my own way of talkin' 
But everything is done, with a southern accent 
Where I come from 

Now that drunk tank in Atlanta's 
Just a motel room to me 
Think I might go work Orlando 
If them orange groves don't freeze 
I got my own way of workin' 
But everything is run, with a southern accent 
Where I come from 

For just a minute there I was dreaming 
For just a minute it was all so real 
For just a minute she was standing there, with me 

There's a dream I keep having 
Where my mama comes to me 
And kneels down over by the window 
And says a prayer for me 
I got my own way of prayin' 
But everyone's begun 
With a southern accent 
Where I come from 

I got my own way of livin' 
But everything gets done 
With a southern accent 
Where I come from

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Tom Petty

Thomas Earl "Tom" Petty (born October 20, 1950) was an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was the frontman of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and was a founding member of the late 1980s supergroup Traveling Wilburys and Mudcrutch. He had also performed under the pseudonyms of Charlie T. Wilbury, Jr. and Muddy Wilbury. more »

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