Ronnie's totin' shingles up a ladder for Steve   'Cause Steve fixed Ronnie's transmission last week   Friday night there'll be spaghetti, five dollars a plate   To help get Curtis Wright's doctor bills paid   Every able bodied man is a fire department volunteer   The rats don't race around here      They got thirty day credit at the hardware store   You don't need a Mastercard to buy a two-by-four   Saturday's for fishin' and Sunday's for church   Here it ain't a career, it's five days of work   A trash man's a trash man not a sanitation engineer   The rats don't race around here      Chorus:   There ain't no need to ride a bus in to work each day   Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place   You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere   But the rats don't race around here      There ain't no need to ride a bus in to work each day   Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place   You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere   Somebody wins a trophy at the drap strip every year   But the rats don't race around here   Ya'll, the rats don't race around here   We like that domestic beer