http://www.macmcanally.com Mac on stage solo moving from acoustic to electric guitar and back to keyboards as well. It was a great night of music from the Mississippi native. Here is one story from that night. “Back Where I Come From” was covered by Kenny Chesney on his 1996 album “Me and You.” Chesney also included a live version of the song on his 2000 Greatest Hits album. Of Chesney’s recordings, McAnally said that “As a publisher I knew I was devaluing the copyright by singing it myself instead of passing it onto better and bigger singers, but I did it anyway. One of many of my classically bad business choices, but thankfully Kenny Chesney was kind enough to bail me out and cut it again.”
Well in the town where I was raised,
the clock ticks and the cattle grazed
Time passed with amazing grace,
Back where I come from
You can lie on a river bank,
paint your name on a water tank
or Miscount all the beers you drank,
Back where I come from
Back where I come from
Where I’ll be when its said and done
I’m proud as anyone
That’s where I come from
We learned in the Sunday school,
who made the sun shine through
I know who made the moon shine too,
Back where I come from
Blue eyes on a Saturday night,
tan legs in the broad daylight
TV’s they were black and white,
Back where I come from
Back where I come from
Where I’ll be when its said and done
I’m proud as anyone
That’s where I come from
Some say it’s a backward place,
narrow minds on a narrow wage
But I make it a point to say,
that’s where I come from
That’s where I come from
Where I’ll be when its said and done
I’m proud as anyone
That’s where I come from
Back where I come from
I’m an old Tennessean
Well Im proud as anyone
That’s where I come from