Ride Through The Country-Colt Ford

[ti:Ride Through the Country]
[ar:Colt Ford/John Michael Montgomery]
[al:Answer to No One: The Colt Ford Classics]
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[00:00.00]Ride Through the Country - Colt Ford/John Michael Montgomery
[00:02.58]Thank y'all how y'all doing
[00:04.43]Yeh my names Colt Ford
[00:06.35]I jus came here
[00:07.14]To do a little song for y'all
[00:09.15]About where I come from
[00:10.56]The way I see it
[00:12.29]I brought my buddy
[00:13.04]Mr. John Michael Montgomery with me
[00:14.81]He's gunna play a lil guitar
[00:16.49]And sing a lil bit
[00:18.21]I'm gonna do a lil something
[00:19.14]For y'all called ride through the country
[00:21.36]Let's go John
[00:23.32]Down the road where the black top ends
[00:25.36]You can find Colt Ford with all his friends
[00:28.15]We're used to gravel roads and fishing
[00:30.05]With cane poles wasn't no swimming pools
[00:32.56]Jus swimming holes
[00:33.78]We was dirt road poor
[00:35.16]And cane switched raised
[00:36.52]I've been came a long way
[00:37.96]Since back in them days
[00:39.27]Been around the world
[00:40.29]Twice seen all fifty states
[00:42.08]Ate on thousand dollar China
[00:43.44]But love some paper plates
[00:45.09]There ain't nothing wrong with them big
[00:46.90]City lights but me
[00:48.31]I prefer them slow country nights
[00:50.62]Where I can see the darkness
[00:52.08]Come in and go
[00:53.52]Most folks is honest
[00:54.72]And they all speak slow
[00:56.10]You can leave your door open
[00:57.55]Ain't nothing not happen
[00:58.96]Most country folks
[00:59.83]Sing but I couldn't so I'm rapping
[01:01.83]I wanna show y'all where I come from
[01:04.32]And invite y'all all down
[01:05.89]To any country town
[01:07.06]Now before I pack my things and leave
[01:09.80]There's something
[01:10.27]I need y'all to understand
[01:12.36]I seen a lot things in my life time
[01:14.62]That's why I walk the line
[01:16.12]I'm just a simple man
[01:17.79]And I ain't in the things for cheep thrills
[01:19.76]But all my scars heel so
[01:21.27]Don't you ever cry for me
[01:23.91]'Cos I ain't ashamed where I'm from
[01:25.45]You always will come
[01:26.59]Take a ride through the country
[01:29.92]Up dressed and gone by 5 am
[01:32.38]He's country
[01:32.99]And he's rapping we gotta play him
[01:35.34]Folks been waiting for someone like me
[01:37.92]To give them some heartbeats
[01:39.28]And spit that country
[01:40.85]My jeans don't sag they fit
[01:42.60]They kinda tight
[01:43.38]Got on a white t-shirt
[01:44.83]No nothing but work
[01:46.37]Daylight till dark
[01:47.72]That's how I was bread
[01:49.08]And I'll keep being country
[01:50.40]Till the day I'm dead
[01:51.86]See country folks eat biscuits
[01:53.65]Called cat heads
[01:54.83]Barbeque baked beans sweet tea
[01:56.69]And white bread we like to fish and
[01:58.50]Hunt ain't scared of a fight
[02:00.56]Love the good lord
[02:01.66]And believe in doing right
[02:03.03]Got 4-wheel drives
[02:04.49]Some got mud on them
[02:05.78]You can keep your rolls roice
[02:07.14]'Cuz baby
[02:07.65]We don't want them
[02:08.77]So now y'all all know
[02:09.91]Exactly who I am
[02:11.28]And if you ain't into that
[02:12.82]I don't give a damn
[02:14.30]Now before I pack my things and leave
[02:16.73]There's something
[02:17.26]I need y'all to understand
[02:19.27]I seen lotta things in my life time
[02:21.63]That's why I walk the line
[02:23.04]I'm just a simple man
[02:24.78]And I ain't in the things
[02:25.89]For cheep thrills
[02:26.75]But all my scars heel so
[02:28.25]Don't you ever cry for me
[02:30.59]'Cos I ain't ashamed where I'm from
[02:32.34]You always will come
[02:33.56]Take a ride through the country
[02:36.29]You might see me on your tv
[02:38.69]But honey
[02:39.65]That don't mean a thing you see
[02:41.87]I'm still that same old country boy
[02:44.59]And that's all I'll ever be
[02:47.47]And sometime
[02:48.28]Those bright lights blind me
[02:50.30]And make it hard for me to see
[02:53.16]But when I need to be reminded
[02:55.82]I take a ride through the country
[02:58.71]At about 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon
[03:01.48]Them country boys head down
[03:03.02]To the local saloon
[03:04.44]You welcome to stop in and have a
[03:06.48]Cold bottle big city boys
[03:08.59]And stuck up super models
[03:09.98]We don't care where ya from
[03:11.44]As long as you polite
[03:12.74]'Cuz push come to
[03:13.78]Shove and every one of us will fight
[03:16.19]We mostly easy like Sunday morning
[03:18.52]Old Colt came here to give y'all fair warning
[03:21.46]Country folks won't be pushed around and
[03:23.89]There's some of us living in every town
[03:26.84]We believe in the bible
[03:28.16]And the USA work hard for what you want
[03:30.96]It's the American way
[03:32.27]Nobody owe you nothing
[03:33.67]Supposed to earn your keep
[03:34.90]But in a hard days work
[03:36.44]Get a good nights sleep
[03:38.15]I know some of y'all
[03:39.26]Think Colt's kinda odd
[03:40.66]But I'm loud
[03:41.34]Proud and country by the grace of god
[03:43.40]Now before I pack my things and leave
[03:46.08]There's something
[03:46.53]I need y'all to understand
[03:48.61]I seen a lot things in my life time
[03:50.94]That's why I walk the line
[03:52.33]I'm just a simple man
[03:54.08]And I ain't in the things
[03:55.13]For cheep thrills
[03:56.06]But all my scars heel so
[03:57.64]Don't you ever cry for me
[04:00.08]'Cos I ain't ashamed where I'm from
[04:01.60]You always will come
[04:02.92]Take a ride through the country
[04:07.29]Ahh
[04:12.66]Ahh
[04:18.42]Ahh