《If That Ain’t Country》歌词

[00:00:01] If That Ain't Country - David Allan Coe

[00:00:04] The old man was covered with tattoos and scars

[00:00:07] He got some in prison and others in bars

[00:00:11] The rest he got workin' on old junk cars in the daytime

[00:00:16] They looked like tombstones in our yard

[00:00:19] And I never seen him when he wasn't tired and mean

[00:00:25] He sold used parts to make ends meet

[00:00:28] Covered with grease from his head to his feet

[00:00:31] Cussin' the sweat and the Texas heat and mosquiters

[00:00:36] And the neighbors said we lived like hicks

[00:00:39] But they brung their cars for pa to fix anyhow

[00:00:44] He was veteran-proud tried and true

[00:00:47] He'd fought till his heart was black and blue

[00:00:50] Didn't know how he'd made it through the hard times

[00:00:55] He bought our house on the GI Bill

[00:00:58] But it wasn't worth all he had to kill to git it

[00:01:02] He drank pearl in a can and Jack Daniels black

[00:01:06] Chewed tobacco from a mail pouch sack

[00:01:08] Had an old dog that was trained to attack sometimes

[00:01:14] He'd get drunk and mean as a rattlesnake

[00:01:16] And there wasn't too much that he would take from a stranger

[00:01:21] There were thirteen kids and a bunch of dogs

[00:01:24] A house full of chickens and a yard full of hogs

[00:01:27] I spent the summertime cuttin' up logs for the winter

[00:01:32] Tryin' like the devil to find the Lord

[00:01:35] Workin' like a nigger for my room and board

[00:01:38] Coal-burin' stove no natural gas if that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:01:44] If that ain't country it'll hairlip the pope

[00:01:50] If that ain't country it's a damn good joke

[00:01:55] I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I've met Johnny Cash

[00:02:02] If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:02:18] Mama sells eggs at a grocery store

[00:02:21] My oldest sister is a first-rate whore

[00:02:24] Dad says she can't come home anymore and he means it

[00:02:29] Ma just sits and keeps her silence

[00:02:31] Sister she left cause dad got violent and he knows it

[00:02:36] Mama she's old far beyond her time

[00:02:39] From chopping tobacco and I've seen her cryin'

[00:02:42] When blood started flowin' from her calloused hand and it hurt me

[00:02:47] She'd just keep workin' tryin' to help the old man

[00:02:49] To the end of one row and back again like always

[00:02:55] She's been through hell since junior went to jail

[00:02:57] When the lights go out she ain't never failed

[00:03:00] To get down on her knees and pray because she loves him

[00:03:05] Told all the neighbors he was off in the war

[00:03:08] Fightin' for freedom he's good to the core and she's proud

[00:03:13] Now our place was a graveyard for automobiles

[00:03:16] At the end of the porch there was four stacks of wheels

[00:03:19] And tires for sale for a dollar or two cash

[00:03:23] There was fifty holes in an old tin roof

[00:03:26] Me and my family we was livin' proof

[00:03:29] The people who forgot about poor white trash

[00:03:32] And if that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:03:36] If that ain't country it'll hairlip the pope

[00:03:41] If that ain't country it's a damn good joke

[00:03:46] I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I've met Johnny Cash

[00:03:53] If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:03:58] I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes concerning the great speckled bird

[00:04:08] I didn't know God made honky tonk angels and went back to the wild side of life