Thank God I'm A Country Boy

Song Thank God I'm A Country Boy
Artist John Denver
Album The Country Roads Collection

Lyrics

[ti:thank god i'm a country boy]
[00:02.260] Well,life's on a farm is kinda laid back,
[00:04.513] ain't much an old country boy like me can't hack.
[00:06.999] It's early to rise,early in the sack
[00:09.262] thank God I'm a country boy.
[00:11.620] Well,a simple kind of life never did me no harm,
[00:14.312] raising me a family and working on the farm.
[00:16.686] My days are all filled with an easy country charm,
[00:19.305] thank God I'm a country boy.
[00:21.474] Well,I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle.
[00:24.226] When the sun's coming up,I got cakes on the griddle.
[00:26.393] And life ain't nothing but a funny,funny riddle,
[00:28.306] thank God I'm a country boy.
[00:31.391] When the work's all done and the sun's setting low,
[00:34.55] I pull out my fiddle and I rosin up the bow.
[00:36.613] The kids are asleep so I keep it kinda low,
[00:39.131] thank God I'm a country boy.
[00:41.503] I'd play Sally Gooding all day if I could,
[00:43.965] but the lord and my wife wouldn't take it very good.
[00:46.387] So I fiddle when I can and I work when I should,
[00:49.210] thank God I'm a country boy.
[00:51.372] Well,I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle.
[00:54.31] When the sun's coming up,I got cakes on the griddle.
[00:56.586] And life ain't nothing but a funny,funny riddle,
[00:58.539] thank God I'm a country boy.
[01:22.175] I wouldn't trade my life for diamonds or jewels,
[01:24.98] I never was one of them money hungry fools.
[01:26.159] I'd rather have my fiddle and my farming tools,
[01:29.326] thank God I'm a country boy.
[01:31.896] Yeah,city folk driving in a black limousine,
[01:33.857] a lotta sad people thinking that's-a mighty keen.
[01:37.20] Son,let me tell you now exactly what I mean,
[01:39.947] thank God I'm a country boy.
[01:42.47] Well,I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle.
[01:44.653] When the sun's coming up,I got cakes on the griddle.
[01:47.17] And life ain't nothing but a funny,funny riddle,
[01:48.937] thank God I'm a country boy.
[01:53.412] Well,my fiddle was my daddy's till the day he died,
[02:14.905] and he took me by the hand and held me close to his side.
[02:17.722] He said,"Live a good life and play my fiddle with pride,
[02:20.63] and thank God you're a country boy.
[02:22.681] My Daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle,
[02:25.249] he taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle.
[02:27.904] He taught me how to love and how to give just a little,
[02:30.166] thank God I'm a country boy.
[02:33.329] Well,I got me a fine wife,I got me old fiddle.
[02:36.835] When the sun's coming up,I got cakes on the griddle.
[02:38.943] And life ain't nothing but a funny,funny riddle,
[02:41.119] thank God I'm a country boy.