Where I Come From (Alan Jackson song)
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| "Where I Come From" | ||||
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| Single by Alan Jackson | ||||
| from the album When Somebody Loves You | ||||
| B-side | "A Love Like That" | |||
| Released | July 9, 2001 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 4:02 | |||
| Label | Arista Nashville 69102 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Alan Jackson | |||
| Producer(s) | Keith Stegall | |||
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"Where I Come From" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Alan Jackson. It was released in July 2001 as the third single from his album When Somebody Loves You. In November 2001, the song became Jackson's 18th #1 hit on the Billboard country charts, his only number one from the album.
The song is a moderate up-tempo which finds the narrator, a truck driver, traveling across the United States and finding himself in various situations that make him think about how life in other places is different from his Southern lifestyle. The first verse finds him pulled over by a police officer in New Jersey, who says that he "don't know about that accent". In the second verse, the narrator stops at a diner near Detroit to have a barbecue dinner, which he claims is not like his mother would make it. In the third verse, he is stopped in Ventura after losing his universal joint, when he is met by a lady who asks if "he has plans for dinner”, and finally, in the fourth and final verse, he is driving through Kentucky when asked on the CB radio if he is from Tulsa. After each verse comes a chorus where the narrator explains how the road life is different.