Country Boy Can Survive

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The preacher man says it’s the end of time
And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry

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The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
And you only get mugged
If you go down town

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I live back in the woods, you see
A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me

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I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

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I can plow a field all day long
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn

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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do

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We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

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Because you can’t starve us out
And you cant makes us run
Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun

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And we say grace and we say Ma’am
And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn

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We came from the West Virginia coalmines
And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies

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And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

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I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly

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My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And his taught him to be a businessman

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He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And I’d send him some homemade wine

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But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For 43 dollars my friend lost his life

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Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
And shoot him with my old 45

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Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

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Cause you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run
Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun

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And we say grace and we say Ma’am
And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn

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We’re from North California and south Alabam
And little towns all around this land

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And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive