AARON LEWIS "Country Boy"

Tune Guitar 1/2 step down and dropped D to play like Aaron Lewis

Intro: D chord hammering with index finger

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I grew up down an old dirt road in a town you wouldn't know. 
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My pops picked the place up for 15 hundred bucks back in 1964. 
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My grandfather was a drinker back in the day he put em down. 
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But a war is known to change a man and the whisky's known to change a man but….
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              no that's not me. 
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I rarely drink from the bottle but I'll smoke a little weed. 
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I still live in the sticks where you wouldn't go in a town of 12 hundred down a 
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old dirt road cause a country boy is all I'll ever be.


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It's been 12 years since I sold my soul to the devil in L.A. 
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He said sign your name here on the dotted line and your songs they all will play.
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He set up shop up Sunset he put me up in the marquee. 
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He said you wanna sell a million records boy better listen to me. 
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He said change your style, whiten your smile you could lose a couple pounds. 
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If you wanna live this life you better lose that wife do you need your friends 
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around..and I said…. 
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no that's not me. 
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Your biggest things in life are your friends and family. 
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And I like my jeans and my old tee shirt and a couple extra pounds never really 
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hurt because a country boy is all I'll ever be. 

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Cause Hank taught me just how to stay alive. You'll never catch me out the house
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without my 9 or 45. 
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I got a big orange tractor and a diesel truck and my idea of heavens chasin white 
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tail bucks. Country boy, I know I can survive.


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Now two flags fly above my land that really sum up how I feel. 
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One is the colors that fly high and proud the red the white the blue. 
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The other ones got a rattle snake with a simple statement made. 
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Don't tread on me is what it says and I'll take that to my grave.... Because 
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               This is me. 
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Proud to be American and strong in my beliefs. 
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I've said it before and I'll say it again because my family's always fought and 
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died to save this land and a country boy is all I'll ever be