Country Boy Can Survive Lyrics
By Hank Williams Jr

Welcome to this Country Boy Can Survive lyrics page where you'll find the lyrics to this classic Hank Williams Jr song along with my acoustic demo.

This song was released in 1981 and in early 1982 had become a #2 hit for Williams. He re-released a post 911 version (America Will Survive) and a 25th anniversity version plus video ... bot of these peaked at #45 on the country charts.




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The preacher man says its the end of time
And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry
The interest 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
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

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
Aint too many things these ole boys cant do
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
And a country boy can survive ... country folks can survive

Because you cant starve us out and you cant make us run
Cause one of em old boys raisin ole shotgun
And we say grace and we say Maam
And if you aint into that we dont give a damn

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 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 businessman
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And Id send him some homemade wine

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

Because you cant starve us out and you cant make us run
Cause one of em old boys raisin ole shotgun
And we say grace and we say Maam
And if you aint into that we dont give a damn

Were from North California and south Alabam
And little towns all around this land
And we can skin a buck we can run a trot-line
And a country boy can survive ... country folks can survive

And a country boy can survive ... country folks can survive

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