Robbie Fulks Countrier Than Thou Lyrics

Countrier Than Thou, Countrier Than Thou
You weren't raised in a shack so you better not act so
Countrier Than Thou

Some people just don't understand it if you come from
where the kudzu grows
They think the south is like a planet of peckerwoods
and bozos
When I was young I picked some tubers even took a swig
of moonshine
But I never saw so many goobers until the day I crossed
that line

Countrier Than Thou, Countrier Than Thou
You wasn't born in a cave so you better not behave so
Countrier Than Thou

Down at the bar a-spinnin Haggard he wore a Johnny Reb
tattoo
Overalls he spat and swaggered, lord he was a Boston
Jew
He loved bluegrass oh, brother when I said Shania he
sneered
"That's a word I wouldn't know of We like to keep it
down-home up here"

Countrier Than Thou, Countrier Than Thou
You aint never read your bible, tell me why's your vibe
all
Countrier Than Thou Home is nice and Dixie's nice and everyone likes a
thing that's nice
But everybody likes you better by far when you are what
you are

Not a hillbilly dilletante, fair weather hick, demi-
something (clyde, clod), faux po'folks, well-
readneck...
Robert-E.-come-lately hayseed wanna-be undercover
Yankee...
Mississippi Ph. D., Alabamateur, 50% less Tarheel
armchair Arkansan

He's got a ranch he wears a Stetson he's a hip-shooting
ex-oil king
He even talks like Buddy Ebsen but he's sitting in the
West Wing
Frankenstein I'm well aware of but won't somebody
please explain
How you get a county sherrif walking with a fratboy's
brain

Countrier Than Thou, Countrier Than Thou
Well you went to Andover What's the banjo fer?
Countrier Than Thou

Yeah, Countrier Than Thou
You wasn't raised in a shack so you better not act so
Countrier Than Thou