By Rick Hirsch
You can have your buildings and your heavy 'rithmatic
I don't need no crowded streets or city slicker tricks
I just need to be someplace where I can move around,
Look down at my toes and I can still see the ground, Yeah
Chorus:
Gimme the county side of life
A place where I can stretch out right
Gimme the countryside, O Lord
Gimme the country side of life
A place where I don't get up tight,
Give me the country side.
Goin' down to my fishin' pond where I can throw my line,
Don't matter what fish I catch, I only want to rest my mind
The only fish you get down town ain't caught wit a hook and sinker
Put on your brakes, beep-beep: honk your horn, look out, man, turn on your blinker
Chorus
I was born in a georgia town with a natural lazy streak
Laid back loversjust playin' and stayin' off their feet
Nobody tryin' to get on you nerves o trying' to get what you got,
Live and let live by the Golden Rule, Now don't it just hit the spot
Repeat Chorus
You can have your buildings and your heavy 'rithmatic
I don't need no crowded streets or city slicker tricks
I just need to be someplace where I can move around,
Look down at my toes and I can still see the ground, Yeah
Chorus:
Gimme the county side of life
A place where I can stretch out right
Gimme the countryside, O Lord
Gimme the country side of life
A place where I don't get up tight,
Give me the country side.
Goin' down to my fishin' pond where I can throw my line,
Don't matter what fish I catch, I only want to rest my mind
The only fish you get down town ain't caught wit a hook and sinker
Put on your brakes, beep-beep: honk your horn, look out, man, turn on your blinker
Chorus
I was born in a georgia town with a natural lazy streak
Laid back loversjust playin' and stayin' off their feet
Nobody tryin' to get on you nerves o trying' to get what you got,
Live and let live by the Golden Rule, Now don't it just hit the spot
Repeat Chorus