| They used to sing about pickup trucks on my radio
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| Now those SOBs are in SUVs that ain’t never left the road
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| But it keeps on workin'
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| Lord, Lord, Lord, it keeps on workin'
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| I was raised up on the outlaws, just three chords and the truth
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| But someone traded steel guitar for a big lie and the loot
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| But it keeps on workin'
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| Lord, Lord, Lord, it keeps on workin'
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| I ain’t never been that good at bein' things I’m not
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| I just sing what I know, even though that ain’t a lot
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| Wrong or right, whether you like my music or you don’t
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| I live and breathe my country to the bone
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| I don’t just sing the song
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| There ain’t no country music down on Music Row these days
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| Used to feel all down back home, now it’s watered down LA
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| But it keeps on workin'
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| Lord, Lord, Lord, it keeps on workin'
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| Just when I think it’s over, another one comes along
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| A fresh new face in his sister’s jeans, singin' the same damn song
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| But it keeps on workin'
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| Tell me why, why, why does it keep on workin'?
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| 'Cause I ain’t never been that good at being things I’m not
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| I just sing what I know, even though that ain’t a lot
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| Wrong or right, whether you like my music or you don’t
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| I live and breathe my country to the bone
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| I don’t just sing the song
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| Yeah, Waylon never just sang the song
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| Keith Whitley, he never just sang the song
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| Merle, Hank, and Johnny and Lefty never just sang the song
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| Lord, they lived it, right or wrong
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| But they never just sang the song
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| But it keeps on workin'
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| Lord, Lord, Lord, it keeps on workin'
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| Yeah, it keeps on workin'
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| Lord, Lord, Lord, it keeps on workin' |