Country Boy

[Verse 1]
     C#sus2                                   Badd9
Well I     grew up down an old dirt road in a town you
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wouldn't know
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My pops picked the place up for fifteen hundred bucks back
   Badd9          C#sus2
in nineteen sixty four
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My grandfather was a drinker back in the day  he put 'em
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down
      Badd9            F#6/A#               Badd9
But a war  is known to change a man and the whiskey is
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known to change a man, yeah

[Chorus]
Badd9 F#6/A#             Badd9 C#sus2
            That's not me
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I rarely drink from the bottle but   I smoke a little weed
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I still live in the sticks where you wouldn't go
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In a town of twelve hundred off   an old dirt road
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And a country boy      is all I'll ever be

[Verse 2]
         C#sus2
Now it's been  twelve years since I sold my soul to the
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devil in L.      A.
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He said "sign your name here on    the dotted line and your
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songs they all will play"
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He set   up shop on sunset,
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he put me up   at the marquee
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He said "you wanna sell million records boy     you better
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listen to    me"
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He said "change your style,      whiten your smile,
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you  could lose a couple of    pounds
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You want to live this life, you better lose that wife,
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do you need your friends around?"

[Chorus]
       Badd9 F#6/A#                Badd9 C#sus2
I said,            no that's not me
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'Cause the biggest things in life are   your friends and
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family
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And I like my jeans and   my old tshirts
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And a couple extra pounds never really hurt
         Badd9      F#6/A#                   F#6/A# Badd9 C#sus2
'Cause a country boy      is all I'll ever be

[Bridge]
       E5                  F#5              C#sus2
'Cause Hank taught me just how to stay alive
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You'll never catch me out the house without my nine or
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forty five
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I got a big orange tractor and a diesel truck
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My    idea of heaven is chasing whitetail bucks
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And as a country boy you know I can survive

[Verse 3]
    C#sus2                                    Badd9
Now two   flags fly above my land that really sum  up how
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I      feel
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One  is the colors that  fly high and proud
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The red, the white, the blue  
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The other ones got a rattlesnake with a simple
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statement      made
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"Don't tread on me"      is what it says and I'll take that
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to my grave

[Outro]
        Badd9 F#6/A#          Badd9 C#sus2
Because,            this is me
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I'm proud to be   American and   strong in my beliefs
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And I've said it before but   I'll say it again
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'Cause I've never needed government  to hold my hand
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And I've said it before but   I'll say it again
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'Cause my family always fought and died  to save this land
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And a country boy      is all I'll ever be