Now I grew up down an old dirt road
In a town you wouldn't know
My pops picked the place up
for fifteen hundred bucks
Back in nineteen si ty four
My grandfather was a drinker
Back in the day, he put 'em down
But a war is known to change a man
And the whiskey's known to change a man
But that's not me
I rarely drink from the bottle
but I'll smoke a little weed
I still live in the sticks
where you wouldn't go
In a town of twelve hundred
off an old dirt road
And a country boy is all I'll ever be
Now, it's been twelve years
since I sold my soul
To the devil in L.A.
He said,
sign your name here
on the dotted line
And your songs they all will play
He set up shop on Sunset
He put me up at The Marque
He said,
you want to sell
a million records, boy?
You better listen to me
He said,
change your style,
whiten your smile
You could lose a couple of pounds
If you want to live this life,
you better lose that wife
Do you need your friends around?
I said,
no, that's not me
'Cause the biggest things in
life are your friends and family
And I like my jeans and my old t shirt
And a couple e tra
pounds never really hurt
'Cause a country boy is all I'll ever be
'Cause Hank taught me just how
to stay alive
You'd never catch me out the house
without my nine or forty five
I got a big orange tractor
and a diesel truck
And my idea of heaven is
chasing white tailed bucks
And as a country boy
I know I can survive
Now two flags fly above my land
That really sum up how I feel
One is the colors that
fly high and proud
The red, the white, the blue
The other one's got a rattlesnake
With a simple statement made
"Don't tread on me" is what it says
And I'll take that to my grave
Because this is me
I'm proud to be American
and strong in my beliefs
And I've said it before
but I'll say it again
'Cause I've never needed
government to hold my hand
And I've said it before
but I'll say it again
'Cause my family's always fought
And died to save this land
And a country boy is all I'll ever be
