He don't need no sedatives   To ease his troubled mind   At work he is invariably   Unpleasant and unkind      Why should he care   If he is hated in his home?      'Cause he's got a house in the country   And a big sports car   He's got a house in the country   And a big sports car   But he ain't gotta home, oh no      And he's as wicked as he can be   'Cause he's got a house in the country   Where he likes to spend his weekend days   Oh yeah, oh yeah, well, all right      Well, he got his job when drunken Daddy   Tumbled down the stairs   From that very day this boy   Is more than having his share      One of these days I'm gonna   Knock him off of his throne      'Cause he's got a house in the country   And a big sports car   He's got a house in the country   And a big sports car   And he's oh so smug, oh yeah      He's got everything he needs   'Cause he's got a house in the country   Where he likes to spend his weekend days   Oh yeah, oh yeah, well, all right      And he's oh so smug, oh yeah   He's got everything he needs      'Cause he's got a house in the country   And a big sports car   He's got a house in the country   And a big sports car   But he's socially dead, oh yeah      And it don't matter much to him   'Cause he's got a house in the country   Where he likes to spend his weekend days   Oh yeah, oh yeah, well all right      House in the country   House in the country   House in the country   House in the country   House in the country