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A Country Boy Can Survive

[Intro]

D    D    Am7     Am7
F    F    D    D

[Verse 1]

   D                         Am7
The preacher man says its the end of time      D |---0--|
       G                        D             A |-3----|   D (x2)
And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry      D |------|
   D                            Am7
The interest is up and the stock markets down  D |---0--|
       G                      D               A |-3----|   D (x2)
And you only get mugged if you go down town    D |------|
D                       Am7
I live back in the woods you see               D |---0--|
  G                          D                A |-3----|   D (x2)
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me      D |------|
       D                     Am7
I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive
     G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
Am7           G       D
Country folks can survive


[Verse 2]

     D                    Am7
I can plow a field all day long                 D |---0--|
     G                  D                      A |-3----|   D (x2)
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn         D |------|
  D                            Am7
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too   D |---0--|
     G                         D               A |-3----|   D (x2)
Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do   D |------|
  D                          Am7
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
     G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
Am7           G       D
Country folks can survive


[Pre-Chorus]

           G                           F
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
     C                        G
Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun
G                F
We say grace and we say ma'am
      C                  G
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn


[Chorus]

  D                  Am7
We came from the West Virginia coal mines      D |---0--|
       G                       D              A |-3----|   D (x2)
And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies  D |------|
   D                  Am7
And we can skin a buck we can run a trot line

     G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
Am7           G      D
Country folks can survive


[Verse]

 D                    Am7
I had a good friend in New York City               D |---0--|
  G                          D                    A |-3----|   D (x2)
He never called me by my name just HillBilly       D |------|
  D                    Am7
My GrandPa taught me to live off the land          D |---0--|
   G                      D                       A |-3----|   D (x2)
And his taught him to be a business man            D |------|
  D                               Am7
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night  D |---0--|
   G                 D                            A |-3----|   D (x2)
And I'd send him some homemade wine                D |------|
   D                             Am7
But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife     D |---0--|
   G                      D                             A |-3----|   D (x2)
For forty three dollars my friend lost his life          D |------|
   D                             Am7
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye
   G                     D
And shoot em' with my ole 45
       G           Am7     D
Cause a country boy can survive
Am7           G      D
Country folks can survive


[Pre-Chorus]

           G                                 F
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
     C                        G
Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun
G                F
We say grace and we say ma'am
      C                  G
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn

[Chorus]

         D                          Am7
Were from North California and South Alabam
   G                D
And little towns all around this land
   D                      Am7
And we can skin a buck and run a trot line
     G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
       Am7   G      D
Country folks can survive

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