| Stand up, testify
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| A country boy till the day I die
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| Deep south down in my soul
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| We been living by the dirt road code
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| Tenn pride, rolling stone
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| Backwoods is where I go
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| Ain’t go no time for the city life, no
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| We been living by, living by the dirt road code
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| By the dirt road code
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| By the dirt road code
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| A backwood country boy been known to survive
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| Off the way of the land and protecting his tribe
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| Since back in our prime we was taught how to thrive
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| It was just part of our life to be one of a kind
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| Respected for the respect we give and we take
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| Remembered for the and decisions we make
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| Looked to for guidance through the thickest to thin
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| Even quoted for remarks that we made back when
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| There was them simple days and we lived 'em to the fullest
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| We hung out with the baddest and we kicked it with the coolest
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| in the shade on them hot summer days
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| Out chilling on the bank of old Tims Ford lake
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| We be kicking up mud where folks don’t go
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| And sipping on life from the seeds that we sow
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| It’s that dirt road code, bet the farm on that
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| If you got it and you live it, let me see where you at
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| Stand up, testify
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| A country boy till the day I die
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| Deep south down in my soul
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| We been living by the dirt road code
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| Tenn pride, rolling stone
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| Backwoods is where I go
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| Ain’t go no time for the city life, no
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| We been living by, living by the dirt road code
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| By the dirt road code
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| By the dirt road code
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| Yeah, I was dirt road raised in the sticks of mid Tenn
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| Round from the holler where I’ve always been
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| Where my kin, we some good old folks
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| We make homemade wine and grow good old smoke
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| We sip Jack &Coke, Blue Ribbon beer
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| And we live off the land year after year
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| Day after day, it’s a race to survive
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| Tooth for tooth, and an eye for an eye
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| From the crop to the block, got acres to sow
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| Strength in the game, let 'em hustle and grow
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| Never flip or fold, that’s what I was told
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| And never back down, that’s what I was showed
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| We got each other’s back and that’s how it go
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| And our word is our bond and it’s good as gold
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| You’re never too young, can’t be too old
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| To walk the path of the dirt road code
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| Stand up, testify
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| A country boy till the day I die
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| Deep south down in my soul
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| We been living by the dirt road code
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| Tenn pride, rolling stone
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| Backwoods is where I go
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| Ain’t go no time for the city life, no
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| We been living by, living by the dirt road code
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| By the dirt road code
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| By the dirt road code
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| Putting my time down by the river
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| the end of my
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| the crop this summer
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| Living my life by the dirt road code
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| Putting my time down by the river
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| the end of my
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| the crop this summer
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| Living my life by the dirt road code |