Chords for Toby Keith - A Country Boy Can Survive

_ _ _ _ _ _ Ladies and gentlemen, Martina _ McBride.
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One August day in 1975, Hank's spirit of [G] adventure nearly ended his life.
[A] Hank, his friend Dick Willie, [B] and Dick's 11-year-old son Walt, wake [Db] up early [G] to go sheep hunting along the continental divide separating [Dm] Idaho and Montana.
They are 11,000 feet in the air.
[F] _ _ Willie [G] stepped onto a snow field, placing his [Dm] feet in the boot prints of Dick and Walt, who have just crossed [F] before him.
_ He gets [G] halfway across, then the ground beneath him [Dm] gives way. _ _ _
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[C] _ _ [Dm] Only a giant gray boulder stops his momentum.
_ [F] When Hank touches his [G] face, he finds that it is shattered.
_ [Ebm] Miraculously, though, he is alive.
_ Hurting and hopeless, [Eb]
Hank talks to his dad about the demons he has fought much of his adult life.
He is certain that he'll never entertain any _ _ _ _ _ _ chance to get life right.
_ [Fm] Hank has said, I [Bb] felt the despair and self-loathing peel away from me.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ God did answer your [Eb] prayer on Ajax Mountain that August day, and I think he did all of us, Hank. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was going around the mountains there on the Idaho-Montana [D] border, and [C] we were [G] descending, and we were _ way up high, _ [Gb] and [G] it was basically an avalanche.
I went out there, and the whole thing went down.
_ Just gone.
_ I said, I'll never be out of here.
I didn't know how badly I would hurt, you know.
It was a _
_ _ [C] deal of laying [G] there in the snow _ and keeping a beat _ on a rock with one hand, you know.
But I really thought _ I would not make it through that.
_ _ _ And like a lot of the doctors said, I don't know if you're supposed to count deer or play songs.
You've been left here to do something. _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ a son [N] who helped save Hank's life on Ajax Mountain. _ _
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_ I was only 11 years old the day Hank fell, but one look, and I knew things were very serious.
People do not realize just how badly Hank was hurt that day.
When I finally reached him at the bottom of the mountain, I took off my shirt and tied up what was left of his face.
Then I left Walt to stay with him while I went to find help.
_ Before Dad left us, he told me, don't let Hank [Eb] go to sleep.
Keep [Ab] talking to him.
I talked about everything from football and hunting [E] and how we were going to go fishing that day after he got back.
I sat on that mountain for nearly four hours before a rescue helicopter finally [Ebm] found us.
They strapped Hank to the side of the chopper and flew him away.
I still have a note that Hank gave me two days after the [E] fall, and it says,
Walt, thanks for saving me, Hank Williams Jr.
[Eb] _ _ [N] In _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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the months after the accident, the media credited me with saving Hank's life.
But I think we all know there was a greater power on that mountain that day that had bigger plans for Hank Williams Jr. _ _ _ _ _
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_ We have become very close since your accident.
We've been through a lot together.
_ _ You are indeed living proof that a country boy can survive.
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_ _ Ladies and [D] gentlemen, _ _ _
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_ _ it's [Am] the end of time.
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The [D] river seas are going dry.
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_ _ _ The answer stays up and [C] the stock [A] market's down.
[G] And you only [D] get mugged if you go downtown. _ _ _ _ _
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[D] I live back [C] in the woods, you see.
[G] A woman and the kids [D] and the dogs and me. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Got a shotgun, a rival, [C] and a four-wheel [G] drive.
Country [C] boys can [D] survive.
_ _ [C] Country [D] folk can _ survive. _ _ _ _ _
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Rock a plow [C] field all day. _
[G] Catch [D] catfish from dusk till [Dm]
[D] dawn.
Go noodling too. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Make her own whiskey, [C] grow her own smoke [G] too.
Ain't too many things [D] these old boys can do. _ _ _
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Grow good old [Am] amazing homemade [G]
wine.
Country boy can [D] survive. _ _
[G] Country folks can [D] survive. _ _
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_ From [C] the west of Jenny Cole Mine [G] to the Rocky Mountains [D] and the western sky. _
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Yeah, we can scan a buck, [Dm] run a track line, and a country [A] boy can [D] survive. _ _
[G] _ [D] Country boys can survive. _ _
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_ _ _ _ Had a good friend [C] in New York City.
[G] Never called me by my [D] name just Hillbilly. _ _ _ _
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Grandpa [C] taught me how to live off the land.
[Bm] Used to tell him to [D] be a business man. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ He used to send me pictures [C] of the Broadway night.
[G] I'd stand here and [D] sell my homemade wine. _ _ _
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But he was killed by a [C] man with a swoop-sled knife.
[G] For $43 my [D] friend lost his _ life. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hell, I'd love to spend some beach [C] night in that new tie.
[G] Shoot him with my [D] old _ .45.
[G] Cause country [A] boys can [D] survive.
_ _ _ [Am] Country [G] boys can [D] _ survive. _ _ _ _ _
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[G] Hey, this is Wabasaw.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ He shot a gun.
_ _ Yeah, we can take [Dm] a picture of the [C] man. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ North California [Am] and South Alabama.
[Bm] Little bitty [D] towns all around this land. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Son, we can scan a buck, [G] run a track line, and [Dm] a country [A] boy can [D] survive.
_ _ _ [C] [Bm] Country boys can [D] survive.
_ _ Country boys can survive.
_ [Em] Thank you, [D] David. _
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Stephen Cyrus, a three-legend buddy. _