kicked outta country

i just got the news today

the record i sent them: they threw it away

it don't fit the format

don't make the list

they say i'm too old

won't even be missed

it happened to jones

and even the hag

waylon and willie

and the great johnny cash

kicked 'em right out without even a word

but that ain't the end of the story i heard

'cause cash stomped out the footlights

and haggard for long had a ball

and willie and waylon and kris toured the nation

and jones never showed up at all

they lived what they wrote

and they wrote what they sang

and getting kicked outta country didn't hurt a thing

getting kicked outta country didn't hurt a thing

i just wrote a new song today

pulled out my old guitar and i started to play

pressing my fingers into the strings

i felt the feelings a country song brings

i did some jones

and one for the hag

waylon and willie

and the great johnny cash

they all got kicked outta country back then

and then one day country came calling again

and cash stomped out the footlights

and haggard for long had a ball

and willie and waylon and kris toured the nation

and jones showed up after all

they lived what they wrote

and they wrote what they sang

and getting kicked outta country didn't hurt a thing

getting kicked outta country didn't hurt a thing

well

it don't really matter

'cause i ain't gonna change

'cause getting kicked outta country

won't hurt a thing