Aaron Lewis - Country Boy

      Country Boy (Acoustic Version)
Aaron Lewis
Town Line

[Verse 1]

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Now, I grew up down an old dirt road in a town you wouldn't know
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My pop's picked the place up for fifteen hundred bucks back in 1964
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My grandfather was a drinker, back in the day, he put him down
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But a war is known to change a man and the whiskey's known to change a man, but


[Chorus 1]

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That's not me
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I rarely drink from the bottle but I'll smoke a little weed
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I still live in the sticks where you wouldn't go
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In a town of twelve hundred off an old dirt road
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And a country boy is all I'll ever be


[Verse 2]

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Now, it’s been twelve years since I sold my soul to the devil in L.A.
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He said sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs, they all will play
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He set up shop on Sunset, he put me up at the Marquee
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He said "you want to sell a million records boy, you better listen to me"
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He said "change your style, whiten your smile, you can lose a couple pounds
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If you want to live this life, you better lose that wife, do you need your friends around?"
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And I said, no,


[Chorus 2]

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That's not me
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Cause the biggest things in life are your friends and family
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And I like my jeans and my old t-shirts
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And a couple extra pounds never really hurt
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'Cause a country boy is all I'll ever be


[Bridge]

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'Cause Hank taught me just how to stay alive
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You'll never catch me out the house without my .9 or .45
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I got a big orange tractor and a diesel truck
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And my idea of heaven is chasing whitetail bucks
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And as a country boy, I know I can survive


[Verse 3]

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Now, two flags fly above my land that really sum up how I feel
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One is the colors that fly high and proud, the red, the white, the blue
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The other one's got a rattlesnake with a simple statement made
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"Don't Tread On Me" is what is says and I'll take that to my grave
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Because


[Chorus 3]

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This is me
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Proud to be American and strong in my beliefs
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And I've said it before but I'll say it again
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'Cause I've never needed government to hold my hand
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And I've said it before but I'll say it again
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'Cause my family's always fought and died to save this land
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And a country boy is all I'll ever be


[Outro]

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