A Country Boy Can Survive Chords

Drop D Tuning
 
 
[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 its the end of time      D |---0--|
        G                        D             A |-3----|   D (x2)
And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry      D |------|
    D                            Am7
The interest is up and the stock markets 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 when them ole boy raised on shotgun
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 switch blade 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 dudes eye
    G                     D
And shoot em' 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 when them ole boy raised on shotgun
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
Were 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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