A Country Boy Can Survive chords by Hank Williams, Jr.
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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The preacher man says it's the end of time
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And the Mississippi River,
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she's a-goin' dry
The interest is up
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and the stock market's down
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And you only get mugged
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if you go downtown
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Verse 2
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I live back in the woods, you see
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My woman and the kids
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and the dogs and me
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I got a shotgun, a rifle and a 4-wheel drive
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And a country boy can survive,
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country folks can survive
Verse 3
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I can plow a field all day long
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I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn
We make our own whiskey
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and our own smoke too
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Ain't too many things
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these old boys can't do
We grow good ol' tomatoes
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and homemade wine
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And a country boy can survive,
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country folks can survive
Chorus 1
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Because you can't starve us out
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and you can't make us run
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'Cause we're them old boys
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raised on shotguns
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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
Verse 4
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We came from the West Virginia coal mines
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And the Rocky Mountains
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and the western skies
And we can skin a buck,
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we can run a trotline
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And a country boy can survive,
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country folks can survive
Verse 5
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I had a friend in New York City
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He never called me by my name,
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just "Hillbilly"
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My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
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And his taught him
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to be a businessman
Verse 6
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He used to send me pictures
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of the Broadway nights
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And I'd send him
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some homemade wine
But he was killed by a man
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with a switchblade knife
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For 43 dollars, my friend lost his life
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I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut
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in that dude's eyes
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Then shoot him with my old .45
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'Cause a country boy can survive,
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country folks can survive
Chorus 2
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'Cause you can't starve us out
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and you can't make us run
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'Cause we're them old boys
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raised on shotguns
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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
Verse 7
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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 trotline
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And a country boy can survive,
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country folks can survive
Outro 1
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A country boy can survive
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Country folks can survive
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A Country Boy Can Survive
Hank Williams, Jr.
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