A Country Boy Can Survive

[Stevicus]

One of the top comments for this song on the YouTube page it's on:

You dont understand America if you dont understand this song.

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 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 (Yeah)
We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too
Ain't too many things these old 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're them old 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 came from the West Virginia coal mines
And the Rocky Mountains, and the western skies
And we can skin a buck, we can run a trot 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 businessman
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 43 dollars, my friend lost his life
I'd love to spit some Beech-Nut in that dude's eyes
And shoot him with my old .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're them old 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 trotline
And a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive
A country boy can survive
Country folks can survive


My favorite part of the video is where he's singing "My grandpa taught me how to live off the land, while his taught him to be a businessman" and then does the "shame" sign with his hands.

 

[sun rise]

I got a shotgun, a rifle and a four-wheel drive

No bullets, no gas because those are products of the degenerate city folk.

 

[Stevicus]

No bullets, no gas because those are products of the degenerate city folk.

Plenty of oil rig roughnecks out there. A lot of bullet manufacturing in small cities.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Plenty of oil rig roughnecks out there. A lot of bullet manufacturing in small cities.

A small city is still a cursed city. City folk be them that needs the oil and gas. Not us proper folk.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

That's nice, but I've lived in the city all my life. Farmland doesn't appeal to me. I'm surrounded by it in Ohio. The hicks can keep it.

 

[Stevicus]

A small city is still a cursed city. City folk be them that needs the oil and gas. Not us proper folk.

Oil comes from country folks like Jed Clampett, who was out one day just shooting at some food, and up from the ground come a bubblin' crude.

 

[Quagmire]

No bullets, no gas because those are products of the degenerate city folk.

A car can run on moonshine. . .

Fact-Checking Lawless: Can You Really Fuel a Car With Moonshine?

. . . and reloading spent cartridges isn't all that difficult:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1PZicwbEC-XA7USldEudmK

 

[sun rise]

A small city is still a cursed city. City folk be them that needs the oil and gas. Not us proper folk.

Moonshine can go into the gas tank, of course.

 

[sun rise]

A car can run on moonshine. . .

Fact-Checking Lawless: Can You Really Fuel a Car With Moonshine?

. . . and reloading spent cartridges isn't all that difficult:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1PZicwbEC-XA7USldEudmK

Talk about synchronicity - you posted that just as I posted my opinion.

Clearly we're both great minds who think alike.

 

[Quagmire]

Most of my life I've had both hardcore liberal and hardcore conservative friends and relatives.

Tbh, if there ever were some sort of societal meltdown I would much rather be hanging out with my conservative friends when it happens.

I'd have to bite my tongue a lot, but that would be true ( and already is ) in either camp.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Moonshine can go into the gas tank, of course.

Dang tootin'. Course all that corn and varieties was produced by a bunch oleetist science noitalls with stuff invented by country boys.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Oil comes from country folks like Jed Clampett, who was out one day just shooting at some food, and up from the ground come a bubblin' crude.

You better a took your hat off when you mentioned that name.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

A car can run on moonshine. . .

Fact-Checking Lawless: Can You Really Fuel a Car With Moonshine?

. . . and reloading spent cartridges isn't all that difficult:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...FjAAegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw1PZicwbEC-XA7USldEudmK

I read a story about a subsistence hunter among the Inuits that would retrieve his bullet from whatever animal he shot so that he could reuse it. He was apparently a very, very good shot too.