Boots, Bonds, and Bad Spellings

Lyrics

Verse 1 Met Mel back in ninth grade hall, Cheerleader smile, had us all enthralled. They said, “Pick a football buddy,” somehow I got the call, Standing there nervous, trying not to fall. She handed me a picture, said, “Write something nice,” I thought I was smooth, thought I’d sound real wise. Wrote “The sweatest girl in the world” with a grin and a swirl, Been catching hell ever since from that girl. Pre-Chorus Years roll by but some things never change, Small-town stories stay the same. Chorus You can’t take the cunt out of a country girl, She’s gonna speak her mind and shake your world. Boots in the dirt, hair blowing in the wind, She’ll tell you when you’re wrong and then do it again. She’s stubborn as a mule, wild as a pearl, Yeah, you can’t take the cunt out of a country girl. Verse 2 Friday night lights and gravel road dreams, Laughing with the gang down by the creek. She never backed down, never played pretend, The kind of friend you want when the world caves in. Now every reunion somebody brings it up, That misspelled photo and my young dumb luck. She laughs so hard she can barely breathe, And I just blame it on public school and me. Pre-Chorus Some folks mellow, some folks fade away, Mel’s still Mel to this day. Chorus You can’t take the cunt out of a country girl, She’s gonna speak her mind and shake your world. Boots in the dirt, hair blowing in the wind, She’ll tell you when you’re wrong and then do it again. She’s stubborn as a mule, wild as a pearl, Yeah, you can’t take the cunt out of a country girl. Bridge Here’s to old friends and old mistakes, The stories and the memories that time can’t take. A photograph, a spelling bee disaster, Forty years later and they’re still laughing after. Final Chorus You can’t take the cunt out of a country girl, She’s got a heart of gold underneath the whirl. Strong when it’s hard, loyal to the end, The kind of woman proud to call a friend. Raise a glass high and give it a twirl, No, you can’t take the cunt out of a country girl. Outro And somewhere there’s a picture that still makes me grin, “The sweatest girl in the world”… there it is again.