Hank Williams Jr. – A Country Boy Can Survive (Guitar)

Drop D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
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Chords

[Intro] D D Am7 Am7 F F D D Riff 1
E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|-3p2p0--------------|
A|-------3p2p0-----0--|
D|-------------2b-----|
[Verse 1]
    D                          Am7
The preacher man says it's the end of time      D|---0--|

        G                         D             A|-3----|   D (x2)
And the Mississippi River she's a-goin' dry     D|------|

    D                            Am7
The interest is up and the stock market's down  D|---0--|

        G                      D                A|-3----|   D (x2)
And you only get mugged if you go down town     D|------|

 D                        Am7
I live back in the woods, you see               D|---0--|

   G                          D                 A|-3----|   D (x2)
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me       D|------|

        D                      Am7
I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four wheel drive

      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive

Am7           G       D
Country folks can survive
[Verse 2]
      D                    Am7
I can plow a field all day long                 D|---0--|

      G                  D                      A|-3----|   D (x2)
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn         D|------|

   D                            Am7
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too   D|---0--|

      G                         D               A|-3----|   D (x2)
Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do   D|------|

   D                          Am7
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine

      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive

Am7           G       D
Country folks can survive
[Pre-Chorus]
            G                           F
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run

       C                          G
'Cause we're them ole boys raised on shotguns

G                F
We say grace and we say ma'am

       C                  G
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
Riff 1
E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|-3p2p0--------------|
A|-------3p2p0-----0--|
D|-------------2b-----|
[Chorus]
   D                  Am7
We came from the West Virginia coal mines      D|---0--|

        G                       D              A|-3----|   D (x2)
And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies  D|------|

    D                   Am7
And we can skin a buck, we can run a trot line

      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive

Am7           G      D
Country folks can survive
[Verse]
  D                    Am7
I had a good friend in New York City               D|---0--|

   G                           D                   A|-3----|   D (x2)
He never called me by my name, just Hillbilly      D|------|

   D                    Am7
My Grandpa taught me to live off the land          D|---0--|

    G                      D                       A|-3----|   D (x2)
And his taught him to be a business man            D|------|

   D                               Am7
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night  D|---0--|

    G                 D                            A|-3----|   D (x2)
And I'd send him some homemade wine                D|------|

    D                             Am7
But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife    D|---0--|

    G                      D                           A|-3----|   D (x2)
For forty three dollars my friend lost his life        D|------|

    D                             Am7
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eyes

    G                      D
And shoot him with my ole .45

         G           Am7     D
'Cause a country boy can survive

Am7           G      D
Country folks can survive
[Pre-Chorus]
            G                                 F
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run

       C                          G
'Cause we're them ole boys raised on shotguns

G                F
We say grace and we say ma'am

       C                  G
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
Riff 2
E|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|-3p2p0----------------------|
D|-------3p2p0-----0----------|
A|-------------2h3---2p0------|
D|-----------------------2b-0-|
[Chorus]
           D                          Am7
We're from North California and South Alabam'

    G                D
And little towns all around this land

    D                      Am7
And we can skin a buck and run a trot line

      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive

        Am7   G      D
Country folks can survive
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