If That Ain't Country-David Allan Coe

[ti:If That Ain't Country] [ar:David Allan Coe] [al:For The Record- The First 10 Years] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]If That Ain't Country - David Allan Coe [00:02.78]Written by：D.A. Coe/F. Spears [00:05.57]The old man was covered with tattoos and scars [00:08.49]He got some in prison and others in bars [00:10.78] [00:11.85]The rest he got working on old junk cars [00:14.90]In the daytime [00:15.73] [00:17.86]They looked like tombstones in our yard [00:20.37]And I never seen him when he wasn't tired and mean [00:23.72] [00:26.23]He sold used parts to make ends meet [00:28.47] [00:29.41]Covered with grease from his head to his feet [00:32.01]Cussing the sweat and the Texas heat [00:34.43]And the skaters [00:35.36] [00:37.42]And the neighbors said we lived like hicks [00:39.86]But they bring their cars for paw to fix anyhow [00:43.47] [00:45.19]He was veteran proud tried and true [00:47.35] [00:47.89]He'd fight till his heart was black and blue [00:50.30] [00:51.23]Didn't know how he'd made it through the hard times [00:54.68] [00:56.28]He bought our house on the G I bill [00:58.51] [00:59.29]But it wasn't worth all he had to kill to get it [01:01.91] [01:03.82]He drank pearl in a can and jack Daniels black [01:07.03]Chewed tobacco from a mail pouch sack [01:09.17] [01:09.79]Had an old dog that was trained to attack [01:12.24] [01:12.97]Sometimes [01:14.00] [01:14.94]He'd get drunk and mean as a rattlesnake [01:16.86] [01:17.46]And there wasn't too much [01:18.80]That he would take from a stranger [01:20.81] [01:22.55]There were thirteen kids and a bunch of dogs [01:25.59]A house full of chickens and a yard full of hogs [01:28.35]I spent the summertime cutting up logs for the winter [01:31.51] [01:33.62]Trying like the devil to find the lord [01:36.02]Working like a ni**a for my room and board [01:38.34] [01:38.85]Coal burning stove no natural gas [01:41.62]If that ain't country I'll kiss your a** [01:43.67] [01:45.77]If that ain't country [01:46.61] [01:48.07]It'll harelip the pope [01:49.30] [01:50.98]If that ain't country it's a damn good joke [01:54.56] [01:56.00]I've seen the grand ole opry [01:59.06] [01:59.57]And I've met Johnny cash [02:02.59]If that ain't country I'll kiss your a** [02:06.47] [02:19.43]Mama sells eggs at a grocery store [02:21.86]My oldest sister is a first rate whore [02:24.18] [02:24.87]Dad says she can't come home anymore [02:26.88] [02:27.54]And he means it [02:28.42] [02:29.97]Ma just sits and keeps her silence [02:32.46]Sister she left because dad got violent [02:35.16]And he knows it [02:36.00] [02:37.84]Mama she's old far beyond her time [02:39.97]From chopping tobacco and I've seen her crying [02:42.57] [02:43.61]When blood started flowing from her calloused hand and [02:46.04]It hurt me [02:46.95] [02:48.24]She'd just keep working trying to help the old man [02:51.05]To the end of one row and back again like always [02:54.26] [02:55.96]She's been through hell since junior went to jail [02:58.53]When the lights go out she ain't never failed [03:01.49]To get down on her knees and pray [03:03.47]Because she loves him [03:04.88] [03:06.69]Told all the neighbors he was off in the war [03:09.01]Fighting for freedom [03:10.26]He's good to the core and she's proud [03:12.77] [03:14.18]Now our place was a graveyard for automobiles [03:17.10]At the end of the porch there was four stacks of wheels [03:20.03]And tires for sale for a dollar or two [03:22.43] [03:23.11]Cash [03:23.58] [03:24.82]There was fifty holes in an old tin roof [03:27.61]Me and my family we was living proof [03:30.27]The people who forgot about poor white trash [03:32.97]And if that ain't country I'll kiss your a** [03:35.12] [03:36.97]If that ain't country [03:37.96] [03:39.25]It'll harelip the pope [03:40.43] [03:41.71]If that ain't country it's a damn good joke [03:45.57] [03:46.88]I've seen the grand ole opry [03:49.57] [03:50.15]And I've met Johnny cash [03:53.02] [03:53.83]If that ain't country I'll kiss your a** [03:57.18] [03:59.27]I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes [04:03.58] [04:04.58]Concerning the great speckled bird [04:08.59] [04:09.48]I didn't know god made honky-tonk angels [04:14.17] [04:14.73]And went back to the wild side of life