Hard Country

Crows been crowing at the mockingbird

Said I don't like the song I have heard

But the mockingbird don't say a word

This is hard country

Red tail hawk told the rattlesnake

Said I got a taste for rattlesnake steak

Snake said it's your move to make

This is hard country

This is hard country

And if you don't know by now

Then take it from me

It's a 102 in the shade

But can't bush hog with a broken blade

If you don't work, you don't get paid

In this is hard country

It's all concrete glass and steel

Everybody's moving too fast to feel

They're quick to cut and slow to heal

In this is hard country

This is hard country

And if you don't know by now

Take it from me

The sun will burn and the rain will drown

The cold will freeze you to the ground

But the whole thing just keeps spinning around

In this is hard country

I said, this hard country

In this is hard country