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Introdução:
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The preacher man says its the end of time D ---0--
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And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry E ------
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The interest is up and the stock markets down D ---0--
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And you only get mugged if you go down town E ------
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I live back in the woods you see D ---0--
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My woman and the kids and the dogs and me E ------
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I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive
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And a country boy can survive
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Country folks can survive
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I can plow a field all day long D ---0--
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I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn E ------
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too D ---0--
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Ain' t too many things these ole boys can' t do E ------
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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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Because you can' t starve us out and you can' t make us run
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Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun
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We say grace and we say ma' am
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If you ain' t into that we don' t give a damn
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We came from the West Virginia coal mines D ---0--
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And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies E ------
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And we can skin a buck we can run a trot line
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And a country boy can survive
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Country folks can survive
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I had a good friend in New York City D ---0--
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He never called me by my name just HillBilly E ------
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My GrandPa taught me to live off the land D ---0--
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And his taught him to be a business man E ------
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He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night D ---0--
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And I' d send him some homemade wine E ------
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But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife D ---0--
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For forty three dollars my friend lost his life E ------
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I' d love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye
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And shoot em' with my ole 45
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Cause a country boy can survive
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Country folks can survive
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Because you can' t starve us out and you can' t make us run
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Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun
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We say grace and we say ma' am
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If you ain' t into that we don' t give a damn
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Were 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 and run a trot line
G Am D
And a country boy can survive
Am G D
Country folks can survive