A country boy can survive    (intro)    (sample)

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1. The preacher man says its the end of time,

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    and the Mississippi River she’s a goin dry.

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    The interest is up and the stock market’s down,

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    and you only get mugged if you go down town.

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    I live back in the woods you see,

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    my woman and the kids and the dogs and me.

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    I got a shotgun, a rifle, and a four wheel drive,

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    and a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive.

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2. I can plow a field all day long,

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    I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn.

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    We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too,

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    ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.

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    We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine,

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    and a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive.    

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    Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run,

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    ‘cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun.

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    We say grace and we say ma'am,

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    if you ain't into that we don't give a damn.

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3. We came from the West Virginia coal mines,

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    and the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies.

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    And we can skin a buck we can run a trot line,

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    and a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive.

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4. I had a good friend in New York City,

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    he never called me by my name, just Hillbilly.

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    My Grandpa taught me how to live off the land,

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    and his taught him to be a business man.

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    He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights,

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    and I'd send him some homemade wine.

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    But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife,

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    for forty three dollars my friend lost his life.

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    I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dude’s eye,

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    and shoot him with my ole 45.

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    ‘cause a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive

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    Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run,

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    ‘cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun.

                         

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    We say grace and we say ma'am,

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    if you ain't into that we don't give a damn.

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5. We’re from North California and South Alabam,

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     and little towns all around this land.

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    And we can skin a buck and run a trot line,

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    and a country boy can survive. Country folks can survive

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    Country boy can survive. Country folks can surv………..…ive.

    (Hank Williams Jr.)