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 1964
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
That's not me
I rarely drink from the bottle
But I'll smoke a little weed
I still live in the sticks
I you wouldn't go in a town
of twelve hundred off an old dirt road
In the 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 sons, they all 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 of pounds
If you wanna live this life,
you better lose that wife
Do you need your friend around?
said, no that's not me
Cause the biggest things in life
are your friends and family
And I like my jeans an d 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'd never catch
me out the house
without my nine -oh -forty -five
I've got a big old tractor
and a diesel truck
My idea of heaven's chasing
white -tailed bucks
And as a country boy,
you 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
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 attitude.
This is America,