They say you gotta change your ways

Clean up your act and sing these songs

You gotta smile, get rid of those clothes

And put these new ones on

Oh I like how I dress

And my crooked smile ain't that wrong

I'll be damned, where's country music gone

Yeah I don't know but from one country boy to another

They ain't changing my red neck or blue collar

Still be sitting here on this old tailgate

Jamming to Lynyrd Skynyrd or some old time Hank

You can take the boy way out of the country

But you ain't gonna take the country out of this boy

I bet people thought I was gonna sing

The same songs on the radio

But I can't write that textbook shit

I'm just singing what I know

I might not sing the song

That charts on Billboard's number 1

But I'll make sure you know every dadgum word

And your buddy's singing along

Yeah I don't know but from one country boy to another

They ain't changing my red neck or blue collar

Still be sitting here on this old tailgate

Jamming to Lynyrd Skynyrd or some old time Hank

You can take the boy way out of the country

But you ain't gonna take the country out of this boy

Yeah I don't know no mansion with them marble floors

I got a single wide trailer with some locking doors

A truck that runs a little money for gas

A few bucks on the side for Bud Light on draft

You can take the boy way out of the country

But you can't take the country out of this boy

Yeah I don't know but from one country boy to another

They ain't changing my red neck or blue collar

Still be sitting here on this old tailgate

Jamming to Lynyrd Skynyrd or some old time Hank

You can take the boy way out of the country

But you ain't gonna take the country out of this boy