| I grew up in a batten board cabin
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| At the dead end of a gravel street
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| I got my first payin' job when I turned 10
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| Cause money didn’t grow on trees
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| Cheap cigarettes with the windows up
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| Was just part of the air I breathed
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| I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| The redneck life chose me
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| Yeah me and my daddy built my first car
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| It’s called the motor up in a tree
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| We were the beer bartenders with the ice cutout
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| Rat racing them junkyard dreams
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| Yeah, me and my crew, man, we grew up
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| On high-tune U83
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| I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| No, the redneck life chose me
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| I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| The redneck life chose me
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| What you see is what you get
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| And what you get is what you see
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| I’ll take a Mountain Dew over a silver spoon
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| Any ole day of the week
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| I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| The redneck life chose me
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| And I grew up swimming in cut-off jeans
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| Down at the bridge at the castor creek
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| We’d bend our half bills as far as we could bend them
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| We spent the fall sittin' high in a tree
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| Yeah, huntin' and fishin' wasn’t just a trend
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| It was what we did to eat
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| I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| The redneck life chose me
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| Yeah, I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| The redneck life chose me
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| What you see is what you get
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| And what you get is what you see
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| I’ll take a Mountain Dew over a silver spoon
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| Any ole day of the week
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| I didn’t choose the redneck life
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| The redneck life chose me |