Standard (EADGBE)

  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

  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 many 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 when them ole boy 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 coal mines

  And the Rocky Mountains 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 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 forty three dollars my friend lost his life

  I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye

  And shoot em' with my ole 45

  Cause a country boy can survive

  Country folks can survive

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  Were from North California and South Alabam

  And little towns all around this land

  And we can skin a buck and run a trot line

  And a country boy can survive

  Country folks can survive

  Country boy can survive

  Country folks can survive................