Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams
Key: DD | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


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Verse:The preacher man says it’s the end of time
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      And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry
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      The interest is up and the Stock Markets down
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      And you only get mugged
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      If you go down town
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Verse:I live back in the woods, you see 
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      A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me
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      I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive
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      And a country boy can survive
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      Country folks can survive
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Verse:I can plow a field all day long
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      I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
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      We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
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      Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do
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      We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
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      And a country boy can survive
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      Country folks can survive
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Chorus:Because you can’t starve us out
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       And you cant makes us run
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       Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun
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       And we say grace and we say Ma’am
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       And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn
 
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Verse:We came from the West Virginia coalmines
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      And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies
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      And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line
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      And a country boy can survive
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      Country folks can survive
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Verse:I had a good friend in New York City
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      He never called me by my name, just hillbilly
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      My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
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      And his taught him to be a businessman
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      He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
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      And I’d send him some homemade wine
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Verse:But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
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      For 43 dollars my friend lost his life
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      Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes
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      And shoot him with my old 45
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      Cause a country boy can survive
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      Country folks can survive
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Verse:We’re from North California and south Alabam 
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      And little towns all around this land
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      And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line
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      And a country boy can survive
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      Country folks can survive