Country Boy Can Survive

Country Boy Can Survive -- Hank Williams Jr.

Transcribed by: Skip (Damn Skippy) otsi@ix.netcom.com

This is the way I play the intro.

D Am7 G D |----------------------| D

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I don't know how to write the riffs that are added during the song.

Some are hammer on and pull offs on the 4th & 5th string while strumming

the D chord.

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

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

C G (riff)

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

Chorus..................

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..............