the country i grew up on

parked by the swimming hole

listening to the radio

fresh coat of red clay on our feet

they play an old school country song

the kind that gets you holding on

next thing i knew she was dancing close to me

talk about a memory

the country i grew up on somewhere off the beaten path

it's a shotgun and a bird dog and that old truck i got from dad

we run them back roads all night long kicking up that dust till dawn

haggard singing me back home

that's the country i grew up on

we'd drive up on a hill

past grandad's to back of field

look down on the small town lights

and when the sunlight hit that chevy

son

we were all grown up at 17

living out those songs 'bout love and life

time sure does fly

the country i grew up on somewhere off the beaten path

it's a shotgun and a bird dog and that old truck i got from dad

we run them back roads all night long kicking up that dust till dawn

haggard singing me back home

that's the country i grew up on

on this side of the interstate

they say that it's all changed

but when i go back up on that hill

stars still look the same

it's all the same

the country i grew up on somewhere off the beaten path

it's a shotgun and a bird dog and that old truck i got from dad

we run them back roads all night long kicking up that dust till dawn

haggard singing me back home

that's the country i grew up on

the country i grew up on

the country i grew up on