Country Boy Can Survive lyrics

The preacher man says it's the end of time
And the Mississippi river she's a goin' dry
The intrest is up and the stock markets down
And you only get mugged if you go down town
I live back in the woods you see
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me
I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive
And a country boy can survive
Country folks 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 mant 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 can't make us run
Cause whese them ole' boys raised on shotgun
We say grace and we say ma'am
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn

We came from the West Virginia cole mines
And the rocky mountains and the western skies
We can skin a buck, we can run a trot line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

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 business man
He used to send me pictures of the broadway night
And I'd send him some homemade wine
But he was killed by a man with a switch-blade knife
For fourty-three dollars my friend lost his life
I'd love to spit some beechnut in that dude's eyes
And shoot him with my old fourty-five
Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive

CHORUS:
Cause you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
Cause whese them ole' boys raised on shotgun
We say grace and we say ma'am
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn

We're from north California and south Alabam
And little towns all around this land
We can skin a buck and run a trot line
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
Country boy can sruvive
Country folks can survive
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