Everything For A Country Song But A Country

I got some jeans and a guitar
I got some moonshine in a jar
I got a moaning dog who's always with me
I got a finger wagging wife
I got a poor and tragic life
I got everything for a country song but a country

I left my home a long time ago
and I've been wandrin' ever since
floating round the planet like a lost soul
When I'll find a place to live I don't know

I got a washtub for a bass
I got a ragged dogged face
I got a cowboy hat that's battered like me
I got some diamonds made of glass
and lots of grey in my moustache
I got everything for a country song but a country

I can't go back to where I was born
My thir-teen kids are feeling all forlorn
Someday I'll find a place I like
and a place that likes me...

and then I'll have a country song and a country

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