Homeboy

Album: Chief (2011)
Charted: 53
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  • You were too bad for a little square town
    With your hip-hop hat and your pants on the ground
    Heard you cussed out mama, pushed daddy around
    Before you tore off in his car

    Here you are running these dirty old streets
    Tattoo on your neck, fake gold on your teeth
    Got the hood here snowed, but you can't fool me
    We both know who you are

    Homeboy, you're gonna wish one day,
    That you were sittin' on a gate of a truck by the lake
    With your high school flame on one side, ice cold beer on the other
    Ain't no shame in a blue collar forty
    Little house, little kid, little small town story
    If you don't ever do anything else for me
    Just do this for me brother
    Come on home, boy

    I was haulin' this hay to Uncle Joe's farm,
    Thought of us barefoot kids in the yard
    Man, it seems we were just catchin' snakes in the barn
    Now you're caught up in this mess
    I could use a little help unloading these bales
    I could keep you pretty busy with a hammer and nails
    Ain't a glamorous life but it will keep you outta jail
    Not worry us all to death

    Homeboy, you're gonna wish one day
    That you were sittin' on a gate of a truck by the lake
    With your high school flame on one side, ice cold beer on the other
    Ain't no shame in a blue collar forty
    Little house, little kid, little small town story
    If you don't ever do anything else for me, just do this for me brother
    Come on home, boy
    Come on home, boy

    You can't hold back the hands of time
    Mama's goin' grey, and so is daddy's mind
    I wish you'd come on back and make it all right
    Before they're called home, boy

    Homeboy
    Come on home, boy
    Homeboy
    Come on home, boy Writer/s: Casey Beathard, Eric Church
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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