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A Country Boy Can Survive by Hank Williams Jr. - Guitar Chords

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            Song: A Country Boy Can Survive
Artist: Hank Williams Jr.
Tabbed By: acoustixforever

p = pull off
s = slide


[Intro]

D  C  G  D

[Riff]

E|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---3p2p0----------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------3p2p0---------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------3s4----------------------------------------------|



[Verse 1]

    D                         Am
The preacher man says its the end of time
        G                        D
And the Mississippi River shes a goin dry
    D                            Am
The interest is up and the stock markets down
        G                      D
And you only get mugged if you go down town
 D                       Am
I live back in the woods you see
   G                          D
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me
        D                     Am
I got a shotgun a rifle and a four wheel drive
      G           Am     D
And a country boy can survive
Am            G       D
Country folks can survive


[Verse 2]

      D                    Am
I can plow a field all day long
      G                  D
I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn
   D                            Am
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
      G                         D
Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do
   D                          Am
We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine
      G           Am     D
And a country boy can survive
Am            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


[Chorus]

   D                  Am
We came from the West Virginia coal mines
        G                       D
And the Rocky Mountains and the Western Skies
    D                  Am
And we can skin a buck we can run a trot line

      G           Am     D
And a country boy can survive
Am            G      D
Country folks can survive


[Verse]

  D                    Am
I had a good friend in New York City
   G                          D
He never called me by my name just HillBilly
   D                    Am
My GrandPa taught me to live off the land
    G                      D
And his taught him to be a business man
   D                               Am
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway Night
    G                 D
And I'd send him some homemade wine
    D                             Am
But he was killed by a man with a switch blade knife
    G                      D
For forty three dollars my friend lost his life
    D                             Am
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dudes eye
    G                     D
And shoot em' with my ole 45
        G           Am      D
Cause a country boy can survive
Am            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


[Chorus]

          D                          Am
Were from North California and South Alabam
    G                D
And little towns all around this land
    D                      Am
And we can skin a buck and run a trot line
      G           Am     D
And a country boy can survive
        Am    G      D
Country folks can survive
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