• Song:

    Country Boy Can Survive

  • Artist:

    Hank Williams


For the intro just play D-Am7-then play D on the 5th and 6th fret and slide back down to 
2nd and 3rd.

D (xx0232@1)        Am7 (x02010@1)The preacher man says its the end of time
                G (320003@1)                      D (xx0232@1)And the Mississippi River shes agoin (x02210@1)dry
        D (xx0232@1)                        Am7 (x02010@1)The interest is up and the stock markets down
                G (320003@1)                    D (xx0232@1)And you only get mugged if you go down town

D (xx0232@1)                Am7 (x02010@1)I live back in the woods you see
           G (320003@1)                        D (xx0232@1)My woman and the kids and the dogs and me
        D (xx0232@1)                           Am7 (x02010@1)I got ashotgun (x02210@1)arifle (x02210@1)and afour (x02210@1)wheel drive
              G (320003@1)         Am7 (x02010@1) D (xx0232@1)And acountry (x02210@1)boy can survive
        Am7 (x02010@1)           G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Country folks can survive

D (xx0232@1)                Am7 (x02010@1)I can plow afield (x02210@1)all day long
              G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1)I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
        D (xx0232@1)                             Am7 (x02010@1)We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
              G (320003@1)                       D (xx0232@1)Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do
                                      Am7 (x02010@1)We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
              G (320003@1)         Am7 (x02010@1) D (xx0232@1)And acountry (x02210@1)boy can survive
        Am7 (x02010@1)           G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Country folks can survive

Chorus

G (320003@1)                         F (133211@1)Because you can't starve us out and you can't make us run
              C (x32010@1)                      G (320003@1)Cause when them ole boy raised on shotgun
                         F (133211@1)We say grace and we say ma'am
               C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)If you ain't into that we don't give adamn (x02210@1)
D (xx0232@1)                     Am7 (x02010@1)We came from the West Virginia coal mines
                G (320003@1)                     D (xx0232@1)And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies
                                      Am7 (x02010@1)And we can skin abuck (x02210@1)we can run atrot (x02210@1)line
              G (320003@1)         Am7 (x02010@1) D (xx0232@1)And acountry (x02210@1)boy can survive

Am7 (x02010@1)           G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Country folks can survive
        D (xx0232@1)                    Am7 (x02010@1)I had agood (x02210@1)friend in New York City
           G (320003@1)                        D (xx0232@1)He never called me by my name just HillBilly
                                Am7 (x02010@1)My GrandPa taught me to live off the land
            G (320003@1)                    D (xx0232@1)And his taught him to be abusiness (x02210@1)man
                                           Am7 (x02010@1)He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night
            G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)And I'd send him some homemade wine
                                          Am7 (x02010@1)But he was killed by aman (x02210@1)with aswitch (x02210@1)blade knife
            G (320003@1)                   D (xx0232@1)For forty three dollars my friend lost his life
                                          Am7 (x02010@1)I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye
            G (320003@1)                   D (xx0232@1)And shoot em' with my ole 45
                Am7 (x02010@1)         G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Cause acountry (x02210@1)boy can survive
        Am7 (x02010@1)           G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Country folks can survive

Chorus..................

D (xx0232@1)                            Am7 (x02010@1)Were from North California and South Alabam
            G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)And little towns all around this land
                                   Am7 (x02010@1)And we can skin abuck (x02210@1)and run atrot (x02210@1)line
              G (320003@1)         Am7 (x02010@1) D (xx0232@1)And acountry (x02210@1)boy can survive
        Am7 (x02010@1)           G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Country folks can survive
        Am7 (x02010@1)         G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)Country boy can survive
        Am7 (x02010@1)           G (320003@1) D (xx0232@1)        Am7 (x02010@1)  
  D (xx0232@1)Country folks can survive................
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