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by Hank Williams


Song: Country Boy Can Survive
Artist: Hank Williams Jr.

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Verse:The preacher man says it’s the end of time
                                        
      And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry
                                  
      The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
                         
      And you only get mugged
              
      If you go down town


                         
Verse:I live back in the woods, you see 
                                    
      A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me
                                   
      I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive
                             
      And a country boy can survive
                        
      Country folks can survive


                         
Verse:I can plow a field all day long
                               
      I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
                                      
      We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
                                       
      Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do
                                      
      We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
                             
      And a country boy can survive
                         
      Country folks can survive


                      
Chorus:Because you can’t starve us out
        
       And you cant makes us run
                                              
       Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun
                           
       And we say grace and we say Ma’am
                                     
       And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn

 
                             
Verse:We came from the West Virginia coalmines
                                               
      And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies
                                      
      And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line
                               
      And a country boy can survive
                         
      Country folks can survive


                             
Verse:I had a good friend in New York City
                                       
      He never called me by my name, just hillbilly
                                  
      My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
                                   
      And his taught him to be a businessman
                                          
      He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
                              
      And I’d send him some homemade wine


                                         
Verse:But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
                                  
      For 43 dollars my friend lost his life
                                       
      Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
                                
      And shoot him with my old 45
                                      
      Cause a country boy can survive
                        
      Country folks can survive

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Verse:We’re from North California and south Alabam 
                           
      And little towns all around this land
                                     
      And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line
                            
      And a country boy can survive
                        
      Country folks can survive