Aaron Lewis, Charlie Daniels, Chris Young, George Jones - Country Boy lyrics

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 sixty-four
My grandfather was a drinker
Back in the day he'd 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 LA
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 Marquee
He said, "You wanna sell a million records
Boy? You better listen to me"

He said, "Change your style
Whiten your smile
You could lose a couple pounds
If you want to live this life
You'd 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-shirts
And a couple extra pounds never really hurt
'Cause a country boy, is all I'll ever be

'Cause Hank taught me just how to stay alive
You'll never catch me out the house
Without my nine or fourty-five
I've got a big orange tractor
And a diesel truck, and my idea of heaven's
Chasin' white tail bucks
And as a country boy, I know I can survive

Now two flags fly above my land
And 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

I love my country, I love my
Guns, I love my family
I love the way it is now
And anybody that tries to change it
Has to come through me
That should be all of our
Attitudes, 'cause this is America
And a country boy is good enough for me, son