I do use the standard G if I am going to go to the chorus
directly after, so I can walk up to the C, but most other places
I do not.  You can do whatever you want. 

(Verse 1)

G      D                Em   D
Way up north, where the snow flies
        C         D      G      D
and the sun don't hardly shine
      G      D    Em      D
If it weren't for, my true love
         C                D
I'd have long ago lost my mind
         D                G      D   
I'd have long ago lost my mind

(Verse 2)

There's good folks here and good folks there
most everywhere I go
But the land of my heart is down
where the snow white cotton grows
where the snow white cotton grows

(chorus)
         C          Bm            Am      G
When the river runs over from the melting snow
        C           D      G
we will take to the higher ground
         C          Bm                Am         G     
when the water goes down again, we'll saddle our old paint
C        D        G
we'll be homeward bound
       C       Bm      D        G
me and my love will be homeward bound

(solo)  play verse

(verse 3)
Heartstrings hold tighter than the roots of a live oak tree
holding through tornado wind
tougher than timber, stronger than steel
they'll guide me back southward again
they'll guide me back southward again

(repeat chorus)