A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Version)

Computer man says "it's the end of time"

December 31st, 1999

People buyin' up Army surplus things

Afraid of what the New Year will bring

I live back in the woods, you see

Y2K don't mean a thing to me

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

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

Make our own whiskey and our own smoke too

Ain't too many things these ol' boys can't do

(Including Bocephus)

We grow good ol' tomatoes and homemade wine

A country boy can survive

Country folks can survive

'Cause you can't starve us out, and you can't make us run

We'll survive in the millennium

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

If the bank machines crash, we'll be just fine

'Cause a country boy can survive

Country folks can survive

I had a good friend in New York City

He never called me Bocephus, called me hillbilly (really)

But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife

For 43 dollars, my friend lost his life

Now this dude's gonna get out in a year or two

'Cause the system don't work for me and you

But a country boy can survive

Country folks can survive

'Cause you can't starve us out, and you can't make us run

We'll survive in the millennium

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

If the bank machine's crash, we'll be just fine

And a country boy can survive

Country folks can survive

Country boy can survive

Country folks can survive

(Any year, anytime)