A Country Boy Can Survive-Hank Williams JR.

[ti:A Country Boy Can Survive] [ar:Hank Williams JR.] [al:Greatest Hits] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]A Country Boy Can Survive - Hank Williams JR. [00:09.79]The preacher man says it's the end of time [00:12.69]And the Mississippi River she's a-goin' dry [00:16.12] [00:20.82]The interest is up and the stock market's down [00:24.03]And you only get mugged if you go downtown [00:27.35] [00:32.18]I live back in the woods you see [00:35.38]My woman and the kids and the dogs and me [00:39.19] [00:42.92]I got a shotgun a rifle and a 4-wheel drive [00:46.21]And a country boy can survive country folks can survive [00:53.11] [00:57.80]I can plow a field all day long [01:00.94]I can catch catfish from dusk 'til dawn [01:04.66] [01:06.46]Yeah [01:07.05] [01:09.26]We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too [01:12.15]Ain't too many things these old boys can't do [01:15.92] [01:20.07]We grow good ol' tomatoes and homemade wine [01:23.27]And a country boy can survive country folks can survive [01:29.82] [01:34.08]Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run [01:37.78]'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns [01:41.26] [01:42.53]We say grace and we say ma'am [01:45.55]If you ain't into that we don't give a d**n [01:49.09] [01:51.97]We came from the West Virginia coal mines [01:55.05]And the Rocky Mountains and the western skies [01:58.80] [02:03.09]And we can skin a buck we can run a trotline [02:06.32]And a country boy can survive country folks can survive [02:12.56] [02:17.53]I had a good friend in New York City [02:20.80]He never called me by my name just "Hillbilly" [02:24.24] [02:28.56]My grandpa taught me how to live off the land [02:31.73]And his taught him to be a businessman [02:35.22] [02:39.66]He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights [02:43.07]And I'd send him some homemade wine [02:46.34] [02:50.52]But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife [02:54.23]For 43 dollars my friend lost his life [02:58.40] [03:02.05]I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes [03:05.52]Then shoot him with my old .45 [03:08.29]'Cause a country boy can survive country folks can survive [03:16.39] [03:19.50]'Cause you can't starve us out and you can't make us run [03:22.95]'Cause we're them old boys raised on shotguns [03:26.08] [03:27.57]We say grace and we say ma'am [03:30.37]If you ain't into that we don't give a d**n [03:34.00] [03:36.93]We're from north California and south Alabam' [03:40.42]And little towns all around this land [03:43.84] [03:48.42]And we can skin a buck and run a trotline [03:51.44]And a country boy can survive country folks can survive [03:57.01] [03:57.80]A country boy can survive [04:00.42] [04:01.10]Country folks can survive