Let Your Boys Be Country

Album: Highway Desperado (2023)
Charted: 83
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  • Let your boys be country
    Let 'em keep that red dirt on his boots
    Make 'em proud of that middle nowhere
    He's got down in his roots
    Let 'em work in a hay field, sweating
    For a little summer cash
    Raise 'em hard, raise 'em tough
    Bring 'em up to have their brother's back

    Let 'em ride 'round trucks, making backroad noise
    Let 'em hang out on Friday, gettin' wild with the boys
    Let 'em go to the woods in the cold, painted up camo green
    Yeah, let 'em chase, let 'em fall for a small-town girl
    Let everything inside these county lines be his whole world
    You want him to grow up to be someone he's damn proud to be
    Mamas, let your boys be country

    (Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)

    Teach 'em "Yes, ma'am" and "No, ma'am"
    And never turn down a cold beer
    Tell 'em there ain't nothin' greener
    Than the grass you're standing on right here (yeah)

    Let 'em ride 'round trucks, making backroad noise
    Let 'em hang out on Friday, gettin' wild with the boys
    Let 'em go to the woods in the cold, painted up camo green
    Yeah, let 'em chase, let 'em fall for a small-town girl
    Let everything inside these county lines be his whole world
    You want him to grow up to be someone he's damn proud to be
    Mamas, let your boys be country

    (Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
    Mamas, let your boys be country
    (Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)

    Yeah, let 'em chase, let 'em fall for a small-town girl
    Let everything inside these county lines be his whole world
    You want him to grow up to be someone he's damn proud to be
    Mamas, let your boys be country
    Let 'em ride 'round trucks, making backroad noise (oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
    Let 'em hang out on Friday, gettin' wild with the boys (oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
    Let 'em go to the woods in the cold, painted up camo green (oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
    Mamas, let your boys be country

    Let your boys be country Writer/s: Allison Veltz-Cruz, Jaron Caleb Boyer, Micah Matthew Wilshire
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Peermusic Publishing, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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