VERSE 1

Hope used to live right down the street

Her kids two and four played in the yard in their bare feet
Sunday nights they watched the sun go down
from their back porch somewhere in the South


Charlie had a good job at the mill
Little house on the edge of town, A dog, a car, a mortgage bill

Overnight they're homeless refugees
They're Americans just like you and me


CHORUS

Where would you go if you couldn't go home

What would you do if everything you ever knew was gone
I can't imagine what that's like
I pray I'll never have to know

Where would you go if you couldn't go home

VERSE 2


If you had to put your whole life in two hands
and carry it away like some gypsy in a caravan

What would you take, what would you leave
When your home is turned to rubble and debris


Friends in Alabama, Dixieland delight
Georgia, Louisiana, you're in our prayers tonight
To those Joplin Missouri born and raised

Pickin up the pieces blown away
Our hearts are with you


CHORUS

Where would you go if you couldn't go home

What would you do if everything you ever knew was gone
I can't imagine what that's like
I pray I'll never have to know

Where would you go if you couldn't go home

BRIDGE


Where would you go if you couldn't go home
Where would you go if you couldn't go home