Country Boy

Country Boy -"Little" Jimmy Dickens/Earl Scruggs

Now, I'm just a simple guy

But there's one thing

Sure as shootin'

I hate those folks

Should think there is

Doggone high fa lutin

I'd be the same in Hollywood

Or right in my own kitchen

I believe in fussin'

When you're mad

And scratchin'

When you're itchin'.

I'm a plain, old country boy

A corn-bread lovin' country boy

I raise cain on Saturday

But I go to church on Sunday

I'm a plain, old country boy

A corn-bread lovin' country boy

I'll be lookin' over that old grey mule

When the sun comes up on Monday.

Where I come from, opportunities,

They never were too good

We never had much money,

But we done the best we could

Ma doctored me from youngin-hood,

With Epson salts and Iodine

Made my diapers out of old feed sacks,

My 'spenders out of plow lines.

I'm a plain, old country boy

A corn-bread lovin' country boy

I raise cain on Saturday

And I go to church on Sunday

I'm a plain, old country boy

A tater eating country boy

I'll be lookin' over that old grey mule

When the sun comes up on Monday.

Every time the preacher called,

Ma always fixed a chicken

If I'd reach for a drumstick,

I was sure to get a lickin'

She always saved two parts for me,

But I had to shut my mouth

T'was the gizzard

And the North end

Of a chicken flyin' South.

I'm a plain, old country boy

A corn-bread lovin' country boy

I raise cain on Saturday

But I go to church on Sunday

I'm a plain, old country boy

A tater eating country boy

I'll be lookin' over that old grey mule

When the sun comes up on Monday.