David Allan Coe – If That Aint Country (Guitar)

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The old man was covered with tattoos and scars, he got some in prison and others in bars

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The rest he got workin' on old junk cars in the daytime

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They looked like tombstones in our yard

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And I never seen him when he wasn't tired and mean

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He sold used parts to make ends meet, covered with grease from his head to his feet

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Cussin' the sweat and the Texas heat, and the skeeters

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And the neighbors said we lived like hicks,

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But they brung their cars for Pa to fix anyhow.

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He was vet'ran proud, tried and true, he'd fight till his heart was black and blue,

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Didn't know how he'd made it through, the hard times

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He'd bought our house on the G.I. Bill,

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But it wasn't worth all he had to kill to get it

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He drank pearl in a can and Jack Daniels black, chewed tobacco from a mail-pouch sack,

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Had an old dog that was trained to attack, sometimes

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He'd get drunk and mean as a rattlesnake,

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And there wasn't too much that he would take, from a stranger

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There was 13 kids and a bunch of dogs, house full of chickens and a yard full of hogs,

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Spent the summertime cuttin' up logs for the winter

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Tryin' like the devil to find the lord, and workin' like a dog for my room and board,

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Coal burnin' stove, no natural gas, and if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass.

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If that ain't country, it'll hairlip the pope,

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If that ain't country, it's a damn good joke

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I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I met Johnny Cash,

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And if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass.

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Momma sells eggs at a grocery store, my oldest sister is a first-rate whore,

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Dad says she can't come home anymore, and he means it

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Ma just sits and keeps her silence

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Sister she left 'cause Dad got violent, and he knows it

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Momma she's old, far beyond her time, from choppin' tobacco and I seen her cryin'

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When blood started flowin' from her calloused hand, and it hurt me

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But she'd just keep workin', tryin' to help the old man,

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From the end of one row and back again, like always

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She's been through hell since Junior went to jail, and when the lights go out she ain't never failed,

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To get down on her knees and pray, 'cause she loves him

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Told all the neighbors he was off in the war,

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Fightin' for freedom, he's good to the core, and she's proud

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Our place was a graveyard for automobiles, at the end of the porch there was 4 stacks of wheels,

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And tires for sale for a dollar or two, cash

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There was 50 holes in an old tin roof

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Me and my family was livin' proof,

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Of people who forgot about poor white trash

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And if that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

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If that ain't country, it'll hairlip the pope,

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If that ain't country, it's a damn good joke

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I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I met Johnny Cash,

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And if that ain't country, I'll kiss your ass.

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I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes

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Concerning the great speckled bird

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I didn't know god made honky-tonk angels

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And went back to the wild side of life