Song: Country Boy Can Survive Artist: Hank Williams Jr. Tabbed By: acoustixforever p=pull off s=slide Intro: D C G D Riff: ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ ---3p2p0---------------------------------------------------------- ----------3p2p0--------------------------------------------------- -----------------3s4---------------------------------------------- D C Verse:The preacher man says it’s the end of time G D And the Mississippi River she’s a goin’ dry D C The interest is up and the Stock Markets down G And you only get mugged D If you go down town D C Verse:I live back in the woods, you see G D A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me D C I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive G D And a country boy can survive C G D Country folks can survive D C Verse:I can plow a field all day long G D I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn D C We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too G D Ain’t too many things these ole boys can’t do D C We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine G D And a country boy can survive C G D Country folks can survive G Chorus:Because you can’t starve us out F And you cant makes us run C G Cause one-of- ‘em old boys raisin ole shotgun G F And we say grace and we say Ma’am C G And if you ain’t into that we don’t give a damn D C Verse:We came from the West Virginia coalmines G D And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies D C And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line G D And a country boy can survive C G D Country folks can survive D C Verse:I had a good friend in New York City G D He never called me by my name, just hillbilly D C My grandpa taught me how to live off the land G D And his taught him to be a businessman D C He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights G D And I’d send him some homemade wine D C Verse:But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife G D For 43 dollars my friend lost his life D C Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes G D And shoot him with my old 45 C G D Cause a country boy can survive C G D Country folks can survive (Chorus) D C Verse:We’re from North California and south Alabam G D And little towns all around this land D C And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line C G D And a country boy can survive C G D Country folks can survive