| What a sad state of affairs I’m in
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| Cause I’m trying to compete where I just don’t fit in
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| Cause the country, if you call it that, from off the road
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| Ain’t country just because I’m old enough to know that
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| That ain’t country
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| That’s a natural fact
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| It’s full of tails of good times and happy endings
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| My life ain’t like that
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| So I’ll keep listening to the old songs that my Grandad used to play
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| Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away
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| The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today
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| So tell me, whatever happened to the country songs
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| Full of truth and consequences, all the things gone wrong
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| Someone came and changed it up, made it all a lie
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| I’d like to spit a little beach-nut right in that dude’s eye
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| Cause that ain’t country
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| That’s a natural fact
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| It’s full of tails of good times and happy endings
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| My life ain’t like that
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| So I’ll keep listening to the old songs that my Grandad used to play
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| Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away
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| The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today
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| Now listen here
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| We got Waylon singing songs bout a Ramblin' Man
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| And Junior’s got a cold one in his hand
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| And the Possum’s gettin drunk again imagine that
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| And Charlie Daniels playing fiddle underneath that hat
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| And John and June are goin' back and forth again
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| And David Allan Coe is singing 'bout his kin
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| And Haggard sings the songs that’ll save your soul
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| And Willie sings the songs about the hearts he stole
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| Cause that shit’s country
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| That’s a natural fact
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| It’s full of tails of hard times and complications
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| Ain’t life like that?
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| So I’ll keep listening to the old songs that my Grandad used to play
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| Full of pain and heartache and desperation and the ones that got away
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| The ones that speak to me, the way I feel today
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| The ones that speak to me
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| The way I feel today |