We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Country Bumpkin

from Roadkill by Band of Jakeys

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

      20 CZK  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 4 Band of Jakeys releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Live at Jazz Dock, Jake the Pig, Roadkill, and Barnyard Buddies. , and , .

      624 CZK or more (35% OFF)

     

lyrics

This is the story about a poor country boy
Working in a factory upstate in Illinois
Skyscrapers, cars and telephones
So many people, he felt so alone

Kinfolks said, come on back to these hills
There’s fresh air, clean water, and liquor from a still
Packed up his pack and headed back to Tennessee
Back to his home and his family

He’s a country bumpkin, that special something
A square dancer, a moonlight romancer
A country bumpkin, drive a tractor all day
You could come back here in a hundred years
He’s here to stay

Some folks go to church, but he prefers the pubs
Where he met the preacher’s daughter
And they fell in love
She got pregnant, six months later they were wed
It was such a beautiful occasion
Down by the river bed

He’s a country bumpkin, that special something
A square dancer, a moonlight romancer
A country bumpkin, drive a tractor all day
You could come back here in a hundred years
He’s here to stay

Up in the hills he built a house with Tammy Sue
Waking with the sunrise and a cock-a-doodle-doo
Tammy’s in the kitchen while Billy’s in the barn
And everybody’s happy, down on the farm

He’s a country bumpkin, that special something
A square dancer, a moonlight romancer
A country bumpkin, drive a tractor all day
You could come back here in a hundred years
He’s here to stay

credits

from Roadkill, released July 7, 1996
Jimmie Bozeman

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Band of Jakeys Prague, Czechia

The Band of Jakeys is a fellowship of like-minded musicians, songwriters and friends. Their story started on the Charles Bridge in the magical city of Prague in the early 1990's. Over the years members have come and gone. Some have left only to return. The current Jakeys line-up is Tony Rose (Scotland), Jimmie Bozeman (LA, USA) and Dalton Stansbury (NC, USA) ... more

contact / help

Contact Band of Jakeys

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Band of Jakeys, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Seafood Sam joins the show to discuss his newest album, " Standing On Giant Shoulders".
listen now