A Country Boy Can Survive
Written and recorded by Hank Williams Jr.
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The preacher man says its the end of time
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And the Mississippi River she’s a going dry
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The interest is up and the stock markets 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 rifle and a four wheel drive
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And a country boy can survive
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Country folks can survive
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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
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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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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
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Country folks can survive
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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 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 Night
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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 dudes eye
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And shoot em' with my ole 45
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Cause a country boy can survive
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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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Were 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
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Country folks can survive
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Country boy can survive
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Country folks can survive
