COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE (Millennium version)
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.
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.
Beause
you can't starve us out , and you can't make us run,
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we'll survive the new
millennium.
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.
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.
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
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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.