Wouldn't Be A Country Boy

If daddy would of took that job
Moved us on into the city
If mama didn't love magnolias
Didn't want to leave a view that pretty
Well, I don't think I'd sound the same
Standing here talking to you
I might have this old shirt tucked in
But I wouldn't have on these boots

Wouldn't know all about red dirt living
Reeling em' in on some old stren line
Wouldn't know all about what I've been missing
If I didn't see it with my own eyes
If I didn't grow up where the sun goes down
Miles away from all that noise
Ah, it would be been a shame
Could of been a lot of things
But I wouldn't be a country boy
Country boy

I still would of chased the girls
Try to steal a few midnight kisses
But it would've been under those city lights
Not under these stars by the river
And I might of went a little more rock and roll
When I picked up my guitar
Thank God I was digging' on some old Alabama
Or I never would of made it this far

Wouldn't know all about red dirt living
Reeling em' in on some old line stren line
Wouldn't know all about what I've been missing
If I didn't see if with my own eyes
If I didn't grow up where the sun goes down
Miles away from all that noise
Oh, it would be been a shame
Could of been a lot of things
But I wouldn't be a country boy
Country boy

Still would of tore up a few good Friday nights (Friday nights)
Yeah, might of found a hole in the wall, little dive with some neon lights
I was tipping' that 'shine from a twist top jar
The light of a fire by a backroad barn
Well thank God that daddy didn't sell the farm

Wouldn't know all about red dirt living
Reeling em' in on some old stren line
Wouldn't know all about what I've been missing
If I didn't see if with my own eyes
If I didn't grow up where the sun goes down
Miles away from all that noise
Oh, it would be been a shame
Could of been a lot of things
But I wouldn't be a country boy
Oh, it would be been a shame
Could of been a lot of things
But I wouldn't be a country boy, country boy
I wouldn't be a country boy, no, no