The preacher man says it's the end of time   And the Mississippi River she's a goin' dry     The interest is up and the stock market's down  And you only get mugged if you go downtown     I live back in the woods you see   My woman and the kids and the dogs and me     I've got a shotgun a rifle   and a four wheel drive  And a country boy can survive   Country folks can survive     I can plow a field all day long   I can catch catfish from dusk til dawn    We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too  Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do     We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine  And a country boy can survive   Country folks can survive     Because you can't starve us out   and you can't make us run  Cause we's them ole boys raised on shotguns  We say grace and we say ma'am   If you ain't into that we don't give a damn     We come from West Virginia coal mines  And the Rocky Mountains and the western skies     And we can skin a buck   we can run a trout line  And a country boy can survive   Country folks can survive     I had a good friend in New York City   He never called me by my name, just hillbilly     My Grandpa taught me how to live off the land   And his taught him to be a business man     He used to send me pictures of the broadway nights   And I'd send him some homemade wine     But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife  For forty three dollars, my friend lost his life     I'd love to spit some beechnut   in that dude's eyes   And shoot him with my ole 45  Cause a country boy can survive   Country folks can survive     Cause you can't starve us out   and you can't make us run  Cause we's them ole boys raised on shotguns  We say grace and we say ma'am  If you ain't into that, we don't give a damn     We're from North California and South Alabam   And little towns all around this land     And we can skin a buck and run a trout line  And a country boy can survive   Country folks can survive  Country boy can survive   Country folks can survive    these lyrics are submitted by PAHarry