A Country Boy Can Survive

Verse 1: The preacher man says it's the end of time and the mississippi river it's goin' dry The Intrest rate's up and the stock market's down and you only get mugged if you go downtown I live back in the woods you see My woman and the kids and the dogs and me I've got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive and a country boy can survive 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 old boys can't do We grow good ole tomatos and homemade whine and a country boy can survive Country folks can survive Chorus: Cuz you can't starve us out and you can't make us run Cuz we'se them boys raised on shotguns We say grace, we say ma'am If ya ain't into that we don't give a damn Verse 2: We come from the west Virginia Coal mines and the rocky mountains and the western skys and we can skin a buck and we can run a trotline and a country boy can survive I had a good friend in New York City He never called me by my name, just hillbilly My grandpa taght me how to live off the land and his taght him to be a buisiness man He used to send me pictures of the broadway nights and I'd send him some homemade whine but he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife for 43 dollars my friend lost his life I'd love to spit some beachnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my old .45 cuz a country boy can survive country folks can survive Chorus: Cuz you can't starve us out and you can't make us run Cuz we'se them boys raised on shotguns We say grace, we say ma'am If ya ain't into that we don't give a damn Bridge: We're from north California and south Alabam there's little towns all around this land and we can skin a buck and run a trotline and a country boy can survive country folks can survive a country boy can survive a country boy can survive