Shotgun shack on the edge of town It's where I'll be when the sun goes down Big money, bird dog barkin' out back Wouldn't trade him in for a Cadillac County wanna pave my old dirt road Went to the courthouse, said "Hell no" It's a country thang, it's a fish on a string Mary Jane chompin' on a chicken wing It's a tire swing on a riverbank It's the way we talk, it's the way we sing It's either in your blood or it ain't It's a country thang Known my girl since she was fourteen She's the first runner up to the Hard Candy Cotton Queen She was raised on cornbread, purple hull peas She turns 'em heads at the feed 'n seed She rides in the middle of my four-wheel drive Got a honey hole way back in the pines It's a country thang, it's some cutoff jeans Paintin' her toes on a porch swing Sweet like sugar cane, come a good rain Make a little love while the tin roof sings It's either in your blood or it ain't It's a country thang It's a country thang, barefoot and crazy Fried green tomatoes and sawmill gravy Takin' pride in workin' hard for a livin' Pray before meals, it feels good givin' Back to the needy, greedy's not us Thank God for it, even if it ain't much That's how we does it down here in the mud What else can I say, y'all, it's in my blood It's either in your blood or it ain't That's how we does it 'round here It's either in your blood or it ain't C'mon, y'all It's a country thang It's a country thang It's a country thang It's just a country thang