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Country Boy Can Survive
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Hank Williams, Jr.
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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 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 my woman and the kids and the dogs and me
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I've 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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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
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Ain't too many things these old 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 we'se them ole boys raised on shotguns
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We say grace and we say mamm if you ain't in to that we don't give a damn
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We come from 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 trout line
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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 business man
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He used to send me pictures of the broadway nights I'd send him some homemade wine
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But he was killed by a man with a switchblade 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 eyes 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...
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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 and run a trout line
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And a country boy can survive country folks can survive
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A country boy can survive country folks can survive
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