Chords
Country Boy Can Survive

Key: D

Introduction:

    Dchºrd.  
Verse
                     D                                                                            Am7  
  The preacher man says its the end of time
                                          G                                                              D  
  And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry
                     D                                                                    Am7  
  The interest is up and the stock markets down
                                          G                                                         D  
  And you only get mugged if you go down town
                     D                                              Am7  
  I live back in the woods you see
                             G                                                                    D  
  My woman and the kids and the dogs and me
                     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
                     D                                              Am7  
  I can plow a field all day long
                                     G                                              D  
  I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
                     D                                                                                 Am7  
  We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
                                     G                                                                 D  
  Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do
                                                                                                     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
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
                                                                  F  
  We say grace and we say ma'am
                                        C                                                    G  
  If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
Verse
                     D                                                            Am7  
  We came from the West Virginia coal mines
                                          G                                                            D  
  And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies
                                                                                                     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
                     D                                                         Am7  
  I had a good friend in New York City
                             G                                                                    D  
  He never called me by my name just HillBilly
                                                                                     Am7  
  My GrandPa taught me to live off the land
                                G                                                         D  
  And his taught him to be a business man
                                                                                                                  Am7  
  He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night
                                G                                            D  
  And I'd send him some homemade wine
                                                                                                                Am7  
  But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife
                                G                                                         D  
  For forty three dollars my friend lost his life
                                                                                                                Am7  
  I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye
                                G                                                      D  
  And shoot em' with my ole 45
                                          Am7                      G      D  
  Cause a country boy can survive
                     Am7                            G      D  
  Country folks can survive
Chorus..................
                     D                                                                              Am7  
  Were from North California and South Alabam
                                G                                         D  
  And little towns all around this land
                                                                                             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
                     Am7                      G      D  
  Country boy can survive
                     Am7                            G      D                         Am7    G    D  
  Country folks can survive..............