Chords for Country Boy Can Survive

Welcome back to the show.
Hank Williams Jr.
is minutes, seconds away from singing for us.
Is this song on the album, sir?
No, this is from an album before this one.
Okay.
And now, ladies and gentlemen, to sing a song from the album before this one,
entitled, A Country Boy Can Survive, Hank Williams Jr. _
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[Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Bridging man [A] says it's the end of time.
[G] _
Mississippi River [D] is a-going _ dry. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [D] _ Interest is up and [A] the stock market's down.
[G] And you're only getting [D] mugged if you go downtown.
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I live [A] out in the woods, you see.
It's [G] my woman, my kids, and [D] the dogs and me. _
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_ _ [D] I got a shotgun, a rifle, [A] and a four-wheel drive.
Country boy can [D] survive.
_ _ [C] Country [D] boy can survive. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ I can plow a field all day long.
Catch catfish from dusk till dawn. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] Make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too.
[G] There ain't too many things these [D] boys and girls can't _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A]
do.
We grow big old tomatoes, [D] make our homemade [A] wine.
And a country boy [D] can survive.
_ _ [C] [A] Country boy can [D] _ _
survive. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] Because you can't stop us [F] out and you can't make us [C] run.
We're them old boys [G] right on the shotgun. _ _
_ _ We say grace, [F] we say man.
[C] If you ain't into that, [G] we don't give a damn. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ We came from the West [A] Virginia coal [G] mines, the Rocky [D] Mountains, and the Tanner Skies. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ We can skin a buck, [A] run a trot line.
[G] Country [A]
boy can [D] survive.
_ [C] _ [D] Country folks can survive.
I _ _ _ _ _ _ had _ _ _
[A] _ _ a good friend in New York City.
Never called me Bo Seifers, called me [D] Hillbilly. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ My grandpa taught [A] me how to live off the land.
[G] And his taught him [D] to be a businessman. _ _ _ _
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He used to send me pictures [A] of the Broadway nights.
And I'd send him some homemade [D] wine. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ But he was killed by a dude [A] with a switchblade knife.
For $43 [D] my friend lost his life. _ _
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_ I'd love to spit some beach nuts in that dude's eyes and shoot him with my old .45.
Country boy can survive. _ _
_ Country boy can _ survive.
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_ Oh _ [G] you can't shoot me [F] down and you can't make us [C] run.
We're them old [G] boys have been training with some guns. _ _ _
We say [Am] grace, we say man.
[C] If you ain't into that, [G] we don't give a damn.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ We're from North California [D] and South [A] Alabama. _ _
Little [D] towns all over this land. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [D] We can skin a buck, run a trot [G] line.
Country [A] boy can [D] survive.
_ _ [E] Country girl gets [D] me by.
_ _ [G] Country folks can survive.
_ _ [A] Country boy [D] will survive.
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