[00:00.00]Now I grew up down an old dirt road
[00:03.76]In a town you wouldn't know
[00:06.57]My pop's picked the place up for fifteen hundred bucks
[00:11.80]Back in 1964
[00:14.46]
[00:15.97]My grandfather was a drinker
[00:19.12]Back in the day he put 'em down
[00:22.40]But a war is known to change a man
[00:26.59]And the whiskey's known to change a man
[00:30.70]
[00:34.08]That's not me
[00:36.40]
[00:38.94]I rarely drink from the bottle
[00:41.13]but I'll smoke a little weed
[00:44.46]
[00:47.08]I still live in the sticks where you wouldn't go
[00:50.77]In a town of twelve hundred off an old dirt road
[00:55.03]And a country boy is all I'll ever be
[00:59.58]
[01:02.79]Now its been twelve years since I sold my soul
[01:06.65]To the devil in L.A.
[01:09.98]He said sign your name here on the dotted line
[01:14.03]And your songs they all will play
[01:17.41]
[01:18.94]He setup shop on sunset
[01:22.00]He put me up at the Marquis
[01:25.92]He said you wanna sell a million records boy
[01:30.14]You better listen to     me
[01:32.90]
[01:33.72]He said change your style
[01:36.16]Whiten your smile
[01:38.23]you could lose a couple of pounds
[01:41.11]You wanna live this life
[01:43.99]You better lose that wife
[01:45.81]Do you need your friends around
[01:48.66]
[01:49.73]I said    no that's not me
[01:55.29]
[01:57.28]Cause the biggest things in life
[02:00.09]are your friends and family
[02:02.98]
[02:05.83]And I like my jeans and my old t-shirts
[02:09.81]And a couple extra pounds never really hurt
[02:13.69]Cause a country boy is all I'll ever be
[02:18.05]
[02:21.74]Cause Hank taught me just how to stay alive
[02:25.96]
[02:28.81]You'll never catch me out the house without my .9 or .45
[02:34.78]
[02:36.83]I got a big orange tractor and a diesel truck
[02:41.16]My idea of heaven's chasin' whitetail bucks
[02:45.17]And as a country boy you know I can survive
[02:50.28]
[02:57.46]Now two flags fly above my land
[03:00.77]That really sum up how I feel
[03:03.84]One is the colors that fly high and proud
[03:08.94]The red, the white, the blue
[03:11.39]
[03:12.27]The other one's got a rattlesnake
[03:16.34]with a simple statement made
[03:19.90]"Don't Tread On Me" is what it says
[03:24.15]and I'll take that to my grave
[03:27.21]
[03:28.45]Because      this is me
[03:33.39]
[03:36.04]I'm proud to be American and strong in my beliefs
[03:42.62]And I've said it before but I'll say it again
[03:47.91]Cause I've never needed government to hold my hand
[03:52.13]And I've said it before but I'll say it again
[03:55.86]Cause my family's always fought and died to save this land
[04:00.03]And a country boy is all I'll ever be
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