| The preacher man says it’s the end of time
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| 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 downtown
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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, a rifle and a 4-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
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| I can catch catfish from dusk 'til 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 old 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’re them old boys raised on shotguns
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| And 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 trotline
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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
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| He never called me by my name, just «hillbilly»
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| My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
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| And his taught him to be a businessman
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| He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
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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 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 in that dude’s eyes, and shoot him with my old
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| 'Cause a country boy can survive, country folks can survive
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| 'Cause you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run
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| 'Cause we’re them old boys raised on shotguns
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| And we say grace and we say Ma’am
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| And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn
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| We’re from North California and south Alabama
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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, country folks can survive
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| A country boy can survive
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| Country folks can survive |