《If That Ain’t Country》歌词

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

[00:00:06] The old man was covered with tattoos and scars

[00:00:08] He got some in prison and others in bars

[00:00:12] The rest he got workin' on old junk cars in the daytime

[00:00:18] They looked like tombstones in our yard

[00:00:21] And I never seen him when he wasn't tired and mean

[00:00:26] He sold used parts to make ends meet

[00:00:30] Covered with grease from his head to his feet

[00:00:32] Cussin' the sweat and the Texas heat and mosquiters

[00:00:38] And the neighbors said we lived like hicks

[00:00:40] But they brung their cars for pa to fix anyhow

[00:00:45] He was veteran-proud tried and true

[00:00:48] He'd fought till his heart was black and blue

[00:00:52] Didn't know how he'd made it through the hard times

[00:00:56] He bought our house on the GI Bill

[00:00:59] But it wasn't worth all he had to kill to git it

[00:01:04] He drank pearl in a can and Jack Daniels black

[00:01:07] Chewed tobacco from a mail pouch sack

[00:01:10] Had an old dog that was trained to attack sometimes

[00:01:15] He'd get drunk and mean as a rattlesnake

[00:01:18] And there wasn't too much that he would take from a stranger

[00:01:23] There were thirteen kids and a bunch of dogs

[00:01:26] A house full of chickens and a yard full of hogs

[00:01:29] I spent the summertime cuttin' up logs for the winter

[00:01:34] Tryin' like the devil to find the Lord

[00:01:36] Workin' like a nigger for my room and board

[00:01:39] Coal-burin' stove no natural gas

[00:01:42] If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:01:46] If that ain't country it'll hairlip the pope

[00:01:51] If that ain't country it's a damn good joke

[00:01:56] I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I've met Johnny Cash

[00:02:03] If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:02:20] Mama sells eggs at a grocery store

[00:02:22] My oldest sister is a first-rate whore

[00:02:25] Dad says she can't come home anymore and he means it

[00:02:30] Ma just sits and keeps her silence

[00:02:32] Sister she left cause dad got violent and he knows it

[00:02:38] Mama she's old far beyond her time

[00:02:40] From chopping tobacco and I've seen her cryin'

[00:02:44] When blood started flowin' from

[00:02:45] Her calloused hand and it hurt me

[00:02:48] She'd just keep workin' tryin' to help the old man

[00:02:51] To the end of one row and back again like always

[00:02:56] She's been through hell since junior went to jail

[00:02:59] When the lights go out she ain't never failed

[00:03:01] To get down on her knees and pray because she loves him

[00:03:07] Told all the neighbors he was off in the war

[00:03:09] Fightin' for freedom he's good to the core and she's proud

[00:03:14] Now our place was a graveyard for automobiles

[00:03:17] At the end of the porch there was four stacks of wheels

[00:03:20] And tires for sale for a dollar or two cash

[00:03:25] There was fifty holes in an old tin roof

[00:03:28] Me and my family we was livin' proof

[00:03:30] The people who forgot about poor white trash

[00:03:33] And if that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:03:37] If that ain't country it'll hairlip the pope

[00:03:42] If that ain't country it's a damn good joke

[00:03:47] I've seen the Grand Ole Opry and I've met Johnny Cash

[00:03:54] If that ain't country I'll kiss your ass

[00:03:59] I'm thinking tonight of my blue eyes

[00:04:05] Concerning the great speckled bird

[00:04:09] I didn't know God made honky tonk angels and

[00:04:15] Went back to the wild side of life