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Is it like 'swing low sweet chariot, comin' for to carry me home'.... thats a hymn. Don't know that band but if thats the song I could probly find the chords

i usually end up with either

A- lyrycs and no chords

or

B- chords and no lyrycs

  Sometimes I find two that work together and thats always nice, but most of the time they sit dormant for months and months before the right music or words comes along.
  The main thing I would emphasize is WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW.  Life experiences, Professions, hobbies, Good advice somebody gave you, something you've lived, experienced, investigated, something that comes natural to you. And don't force it.....
On the other hand I like to try and write something pretty regular just for the practice with rhyming and setting up structures and all that. Sometimes its fun to just pick the most random topic you can think of and try to write a song about it....
One time my topic was 'zebras', and I ended up writing a story song about the stupidity of racial extremes, and it was about Jesse Jackson vs. The White Supremacists on the subject of is a zebra black with white stripes or white with black. Both wanted it to be thier color.... wish Ida kept that one actually it was pretty funny.

But [G7]just because it's history, don't [C7]mean it's in the [D7]past

  That says a mouthful right there.
It was funny reading your ideas for what it oughta sound like, mainly because I'm the kind to do that too. I can hear solos and six or seven piece bands, harmonica parts or even somebody playing the spoons. I'll even have visions of really awesome famous people singing my songs, with somebody like SRV playing blues riffs over 'em and huge sold out crowds...... so here's to getting too far ahead of ourselves with songwriting lol

Well here's some good Hank Williams ones to look for, if you need titles:

You Win Again

The Lost Highway

Ramblin' Man

Jambalaya

Move it On Over

He's actually a good writer, and if you can ever get a hold of something besides 'Hey Good Lookin' (which is a good song, not knocking it by the way but its kind of like AC/DC and 'highway to hell', just because you know that song doesn't really mean you know anything at all about the bad). "Weary blues from waitin'" "The Lost Highway" "I heard that Lonesome Whistle"... just some of my favs.
Its the 'legend of Hank Williams that really makes him such an icon (he was famous, but nearly as much as now untill he died) He was born in Alabama with spinebifeda, learned to play guitar from an old blues player name Rufus Payne, AKA 'tee-tot', so he had an appreciation for the style. He married Ms. Audry, and had a son, but partly because of his back pains, and the mysterious heart ache (no-one really knows WHO he was singing about in all them sad songs) he took to drinking, got addicted to his pain medicine, and died in the back of his cadillac on the way back to montgomery after an unsuccesful surgery. Long before he ever  became 'famous' he did tours all over the south with his band 'The Driftin' Cowboys', and them coming to town was a pretty big deal back in the day. He also had an alter ego fo sorts called Luke the Drifter under which (in great contrast with the honky tonkin' songs he wrote as Hank Williams) he wrote and sang a long list of gospel songs.
Because of his short life and unexpected death, the great contradictions of his character, and the ramblin' man persona, he became sort of a tall tale type hero. Someone once said that 'The legend far exceeded the man', but in spite of all that he was a good writer and singer.....
And anyway I've babbled way too long, but maybe that satisfied some curiosity. lm Srry for it being so lengthy, I'm sure you weren't THAT interested lol

okay here's the gameplan so far: having taken in the greatly appreciated advice i have something to work with.....

The verse that James liked opens it up,

The 'rednecks get the blues' verse as chorus

Another verse (which I have yet to write) following the idea of the first verse (as James reccomended)

And then somewhere I'll slip in what WAS the first part of the chorus as an additional verse.

  I f I have time I'll work on it tonight and be sure to post a completed version, (hopefully with some chords) within the next week or so. Thanks so much for the help yall, I think we might have this one on the right track

roger,
like i said earlier, i didnt have the chords written down so i had to post them from memory, so they weren't perfect. The verses are, but the chorus thing wasn't right i dont think. The way you play it works just fine with the rest of the song because i intentionally made it sound a little different from the other parts.

I think I actually had it like this:
               C                                         G
Well we   spend our whole live goin' nowhere
                                                            D
When somewhere's where we wanna be
G                        C
I aint lookin' for nuthin

         G        D                                 G
But I guess nuthin was lookin' for me.....

anwyay theres different ways you could do it i guess. Thanks to all of yall for the suggestions so far, I really am leaning towards using the peas verse for another song

yeah, i don't really follow the modern day label of 'redneck', i love country music because i was raised around it, i have an accent cuz i was born with it, and i grew up in the woods and i loved it. I didn't jump on the bandwagon when larry the cable guy came out, and i aint gonna jump off when it goes back out of style. I am what i am because of how and where i was raised. I'll be the first to admit there's plently of people more country than me, ive never worked on a farm (i have hulled my share of peas though lol), but i like a laid back kind of lifestyle and grass under my feet......
I've been called a redneck by other people, and the term doesn't offend me. Usually when I call myself that its in a humerous way.
But thats very good advice Zurf, I tick alot of other country fans off because I like Metallica and Guns N Roses too. I try to tell people you can;t let nashville tell you what to listen to, but they say there are two kinds of music 'country' and 'western'.... oh well you cant reason with some people

haha, well some of it yes, but Hank doesn't go out of style in texas
Don't know who sang 'the first time ever i saw your face' originally, but i have Johnny Cash's American Highway (IV or V), with him singing it so I know the song.

Sunshine angels i wish ye all farewell
Please dont miss me when i fall
I tried to fly back up again
But failed when i let go

   This line right here is pure gold
      I think you're getting better, keep up the good work

I have a few friends in the service as well, Greg's over in Iraq as we speak, and Paul just got back.... Blake I don't know where he's at.
Nice song, seems like people get off on tangents about what they think about the war, and i'm talking about people for AND against it, that they forget our own boys are still over there putting thier lives on the line. I hope they know there are still people hoping and praying for them, and who are proud of them, if not always the government that sent them off....
Anyway very nice song jets.