No One Told Us

(album: Parachute - 2019)

You smell that fan in the window letting air in
Coals still burning outside from last weekend
Your truck done died it was running all night
To be the jukebox jam and the wood chop light
You see that fence post nail at the top
To hold the water bucket when the faucet's off
That hide-a-way shed ain't just for the straw
But also lighting up and strumming on a guitar

I said man-oh-man
Where'd the good times go?
Back when Fall by Clay Walker was playing on the radio
So I sang boy-oh-boy
How I miss them old Toyotas
Yeah, country is as country does, we was but no one told us

Yeah, I'm sick of hearing the same thing, rhinestone cowboys
I'm about to smack y'all like the ass on a cowgirl
I'm Mr. Tennessee, barefoot bandit up in rocky top
Orange and white blanket up in that red, red ragtop
You want the gun smoke then bring your ass to the farm
We just some country boys and girls getting stoned in a barn
I keep the Chattahoochee gucci I'm the hollars Elvis Prelsey
Even when I'm fat and old Dixie chicks is gonna dig me
I'll be somewhere on a boat getting too damn sunburnt
Middle fingers up, sissies still being butthurt
I'll be casting a line just sitting watching the float jump
Put the country in country no need to give it to me

I said man-oh-man
Where'd the good times go?
Back when Fall by Clay Walker was playing on the radio
So I sang boy-oh-boy
How I miss them old Toyotas
Yeah, country is as country does, we was but no one told us

Yeah, the music industry think they got me itching like sumac
Got a bunch of tens in Tennessee line dancing to this rap
Rap stills do the shimmy of all the bass to the floor joists
Do it like the legends, rock it out 'til we're deaf boys
I'm kicking up the amperage like I'm jumping off a Peterbilt
Parking through the algae where the Creekers hid the shine stills
Riding down the roads that lead to nothing but a buzz
I put the country in the rap because I'm wrapped up in the cut

I said son-oh-son
Just believe me when I say
One day when I'm dead and gone you'll smirk along and sing

And you'll sing man-oh-man
Where'd the good times go?
Back when it was Holler Boys by Upchurch on the radio
So I sang boy-oh-boy
How I miss them old Toyotas
Yeah, country is as country does, we was but no one told us