{"id":1701,"date":"2008-09-24T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:26:59","slug":"a-country-boy-can-survive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1701","title":{"rendered":"A Country Boy Can Survive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to live with a fellow
who’s name was Cavanagh<\/p>\n

he was good looking
he was smart
he was aboriginal
he was a rigger welder
he was from a family of 9 kids
he was raised hard
he was strong as a bull
often as dumb as one too
and
he was a dysfunctional illiterate<\/p>\n

but he was smart enough to “get around” it
he could write his name
and I read all the important stuff to him
he was also a mathematical genius
without a calculator…
which explains the kind of work he did<\/p>\n

in those days my self esteem was less than stellar
and I found myself
living in a 2 room cabin
in the woods
at the end of a long dirt road
with no heat (save a wood stove)
no electricity
no running water
in NW ON
in the dead of winter
just us
and the horses
and the chickens
and the dogs
at -40 degrees<\/p>\n

cos I thought I was in loooooooooove<\/p>\n

oy…the stories I have!<\/p>\n

but the reason I decided to tell you this today
is that I’ve run across a video
that brought my almost 10 years
on again off again
with this man
right back like it was yesterday…<\/p>\n

with each time he head this song
Cavanagh he would sing along
and frankly
for all his prowess
and aptitude elsewhere
the man couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket!<\/p>\n

over the 10 er so years
that Cavanagh and I lived together
this song was his theme song
no question
he abused other tunes
but this was consistently the one
that he felt a kinship to…<\/p>\n

and over that same 10 years
I set about removing every instance
of that song I could find
every single chance I got<\/p>\n

probably cos it smacked too closely of my life
with Cavanagh<\/p>\n

I threw tapes out truck windows
I threw albums in the wood stove
I hid them in my knitting basket
and I dropped them into the outhouse
over and over<\/p>\n

yet somehow he always found
another copy somewhere….<\/p>\n

over the 10 years
I could surmise that he’d purchased 100 copies
of this song….
virtually single handedly keeping this man’s
career alive
I guess…..<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span>and here’s the link if you can watch an embedded video<\/span>
<\/span>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I4s0nzsU1Wg<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>and the words <\/span>
<\/span>for those of you that want to follow along<\/span>
<\/span>LoL<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>~A Country Boy Can Survive – Hank Williams Jr.~<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>The preacher man says it\u2019s the end of time<\/span>
<\/span>And the Mississippi River she\u2019s a goin\u2019 dry<\/span>
<\/span>The interest is up and the Stock Markets down<\/span>
<\/span>And you only get mugged<\/span>
<\/span>If you go down town<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I live back in the woods, you see<\/span>
<\/span>A woman and the kids, and the dogs and me<\/span>
<\/span>I got a shotgun rifle and a 4-wheel drive<\/span>
<\/span>And a country boy can survive<\/span>
<\/span>Country folks can survive<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I can plow a field all day long<\/span>
<\/span>I can catch catfish from dusk till dawn<\/span>
<\/span>We make our own whiskey and our own smoke too<\/span>
<\/span>Ain\u2019t too many things these ole boys can\u2019t do<\/span>
<\/span>We grow good ole tomatoes and homemade wine<\/span>
<\/span>And a country boy can survive<\/span>
<\/span>Country folks can survive<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Because you can\u2019t starve us out<\/span>
<\/span>And you cant makes us run<\/span>
<\/span>Cause one-of- \u2018em old boys raisin ole shotgun<\/span>
<\/span>And we say grace and we say Ma\u2019am<\/span>
<\/span>And if you ain\u2019t into that we don\u2019t give a damn<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>We came from the West Virginia coalmines<\/span>
<\/span>And the Rocky Mountains and the and the western skies<\/span>
<\/span>And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line<\/span>
<\/span>And a country boy can survive<\/span>
<\/span>Country folks can survive<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>I had a good friend in New York City<\/span>
<\/span>He never called me by my name, just hillbilly<\/span>
<\/span>My grandpa taught me how to live off the land<\/span>
<\/span>And his taught him to be a businessman<\/span>
<\/span>He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights<\/span>
<\/span>And I\u2019d send him some homemade wine<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife<\/span>
<\/span>For 43 dollars my friend lost his life<\/span>
<\/span>Id love to spit some beechnut in that dudes eyes<\/span>
<\/span>And shoot him with my old 45<\/span>
<\/span>Cause a country boy can survive<\/span>
<\/span>Country folks can survive<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Cause you can\u2019t starve us out and you can\u2019t make us run<\/span>
<\/span>Cause one-of- \u2018em old boys raisin ole shotgun<\/span>
<\/span>And we say grace and we say Ma\u2019am<\/span>
<\/span>And if you ain\u2019t into that we don\u2019t give a damn<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>We\u2019re from North California and south Alabam<\/span>
<\/span>And little towns all around this land<\/span>
<\/span>And we can skin a buck; we can run a trot-line<\/span>
<\/span>And a country boy can survive<\/span>
<\/span>Country folks can survive<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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