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

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[Verse]
        D          Am7
        The preacher man says its the end of time

                G                        D
        And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry

        D                          Am7
        The interest is up and the stock markets down

                G                      D
        And you only get mugged if you go down town

        D                  Am7
        I live back in the woods you see

           G                          D
        My woman and the kids and the dogs and me

        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]
        D                  Am7
        I can plow a field all day long

              G                  D
        I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn

        D                               Am7
        We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too

              G                         D
        Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do

                                      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
[Chorus]
                    G                           F
        Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run

              C                        G
        Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun

                         F
        We say grace and we say ma'am

               C                    G
        If you ain't into that we don't give a damn
[Verse]
        D                       Am7
        We came from the West Virginia coal mines

                G                       D
        And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies

                                      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

           G                          D
        He never called me by my name just HillBilly

                                Am7
        My GrandPa taught me to live off the land

            G                      D
        And his taught him to be a business man

                                           Am7
        He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night

            G                 D
        And I'd send him some homemade wine

                                          Am7
        But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife

            G                     D
        For forty three dollars my friend lost his life

                                          Am7
        I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye

            G                     D
        And shoot em' with my ole 45

                Am7           G   D
        Cause a country boy can survive

        Am7             G   D
        Country folks can survive
Chorus.................. [Verse]
        D                              Am7
        Were from North California and South Alabam

            G                D
        And little towns all around this land

                                   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

        Am7           G   D
        Country boy can survive
Am7 G D Am7
  D
        Country folks can survive................