[Intro]

D    D    Am7     Am7
F    F    D    D

Riff 1

E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|-3p2p0--------------|
A|-------3p2p0-----0--|
D|-------------2b-----|


[Verse 1]

    D                          Am7
The preacher man says it's the end of time      D|---0--|
        G                         D             A|-3----|   D (x2)
And the Mississippi River she's a-goin' dry     D|------|
    D                            Am7
The interest is up and the stock market's down  D|---0--|
        G                      D                A|-3----|   D (x2)
And you only get mugged if you go down town     D|------|
 D                        Am7
I live back in the woods, you see               D|---0--|
   G                          D                 A|-3----|   D (x2)
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me       D|------|
        D                      Am7
I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four wheel drive
      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
Am7           G       D
Country folks can survive


[Verse 2]

      D                    Am7
I can plow a field all day long                 D|---0--|
      G                  D                      A|-3----|   D (x2)
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn         D|------|
   D                            Am7
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too   D|---0--|
      G                         D               A|-3----|   D (x2)
Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do   D|------|
   D                          Am7
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
Am7           G       D
Country folks can survive


[Pre-Chorus]

            G                           F
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
       C                          G
'Cause we're them ole boys raised on shotguns
G                F
We say grace and we say ma'am
       C                  G
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn

Riff 1

E|--------------------|
B|--------------------|
G|--------------------|
D|-3p2p0--------------|
A|-------3p2p0-----0--|
D|-------------2b-----|


[Chorus]

   D                  Am7
We came from the West Virginia coal mines      D|---0--|
        G                       D              A|-3----|   D (x2)
And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies  D|------|
    D                   Am7
And we can skin a buck, we can run a trot line

      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
Am7           G      D
Country folks can survive


[Verse]

  D                    Am7
I had a good friend in New York City               D|---0--|
   G                           D                   A|-3----|   D (x2)
He never called me by my name, just Hillbilly      D|------|
   D                    Am7
My Grandpa taught me to live off the land          D|---0--|
    G                      D                       A|-3----|   D (x2)
And his taught him to be a business man            D|------|
   D                               Am7
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night  D|---0--|
    G                 D                            A|-3----|   D (x2)
And I'd send him some homemade wine                D|------|
    D                             Am7
But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife    D|---0--|
    G                      D                           A|-3----|   D (x2)
For forty three dollars my friend lost his life        D|------|
    D                             Am7
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eyes
    G                      D
And shoot him with my ole .45
         G           Am7     D
'Cause a country boy can survive
Am7           G      D
Country folks can survive


[Pre-Chorus]

            G                                 F
Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
       C                          G
'Cause we're them ole boys raised on shotguns
G                F
We say grace and we say ma'am
       C                  G
If you ain't into that we don't give a damn

Riff 2

E|----------------------------|
B|----------------------------|
G|-3p2p0----------------------|
D|-------3p2p0-----0----------|
A|-------------2h3---2p0------|
D|-----------------------2b-0-|


[Chorus]

           D                          Am7
We're from North California and South Alabam'
    G                D
And little towns all around this land
    D                      Am7
And we can skin a buck and run a trot line
      G           Am7    D
And a country boy can survive
        Am7   G      D
Country folks can survive

(Repeat and Fade)


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| h  Hammer-on
| p  Pull-off
| b  Bend

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