COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE (Millennium version)

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1. Computer man says its the end of time,

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    December thirty-first nineteen ninety-nine.

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    People buying up army surplus things,

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    afraid of what the new year will bring.

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    I live back in the woods you see,

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    Y 2 K don't mean a thing to me.

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

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    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 dust till dawn.

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    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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    a country boy can survive. Country Folks can survive.

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

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    we'll survive the new millennium.

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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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2. We came from the west Virginia coal mines,

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    and the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies.

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    If the bank machines crash we'll be just fine,

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    a country boy can survive. Country Folks can survive.

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3. I had a good friend in new York City,

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    he never called me Bocephus, just Hillbilly.

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

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    for forty-three dollars my friend lost his life.

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    Now this dude's gonna get out in a year or two,

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    cause the system don't work for me and you.

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    But  a country boy can survive. Country Folks can survive.

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

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    we'll survive the new millennium.

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    We say grace and we say ma’am,

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4. We're from North California and South Alabam,

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    and little towns all around this land.

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    If the bank machines crash we'll be just fine,

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    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.)