Country Boy (Radio Edit)

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 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 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 L.A.
 He said, sign 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, widen 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 chasing 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 faught and died to save this land
 And a country boy is all I'll ever be