More songs by HARDY
Description
The dream of a country where skyscrapers give way to porches with rocking chairs sounds both ridiculous and appealing. Here, concrete is replaced by cornfields, traffic jams by Saturday bonfires, and office glamour by the smell of gunpowder, smoke and home-cooked dinners. A simple fantasy: take a sledgehammer, knock down everything that is too cumbersome and leave only what fits in your soul.
In this picture, everyone has a dog in their pickup truck, a gun by their bed and a Bible on their bedside table. It's a bit caricatured, but that's the charm of it: it's as if you're taking the country in your hands and repainting it with the pastel colours of the village, rather than the grey shadows of the city. And it becomes clear that behind all the irony lies a banal but eternal desire - to live a simpler and warmer life.
Lyrics and translation
Original
Summertime, Chicken Fried, Mama Tried
Country Boy, Country Boy Can Survive
Oh, Marina, My Maria, and My Amy
Outskirts Of Heaven and Sinners Like Me
Yeah, they might've lit a flame under these old boots
But they sure don't hold no candle to
A north wind blowin' through a patch of pines
Whippoorwills singin' 'bout summertime
Raindrops drummin' on rusted tin
Flathead draggin' out 20 pound Stren
Oh-whoa, strike up the fire, somebody cue the crickets in the creek bank choir
Gotta get back 'cause it's been too long
That's my favorite country song
Hound-dog howlin', tryna track it down
A straight pipes hummin', comin' back from town
Grease in the skillet goin' pop, pop, pop
Nah, you can't find that on an old jukebox
It's a John Deere clearin' out a rye-grass row
If you don't come from it, then you probably don't know
Yeah, you probably don't know
'Bout a north wind blowin' through a patch of pines
Whippoorwills singin' 'bout summertime
Raindrops drummin' on rusted tin
Flathead draggin' out 20 pound Stren
Oh-whoa, strike up the fire, somebody cue the crickets in the creek bank choir
Gotta get back 'cause it's been too long
That's my favorite country song
Oh, hallelujah, I know it that the good Lord wrote it
For a good ol' boy like me
On the back porch, sippin' on a cold beer
Listen to some home-sweet harmony
'Bout a north wind blowin' through a patch of pines
Whippoorwills singin' 'bout summertime
Raindrops drummin' on rusted tin
Flathead draggin' out 20 pound Stren
Like, oh-whoa, strike up the fire, somebody cue the crickets in the creek bank choir
Gotta get back 'cause it's been too long
That's my favorite country song
Oh, I said, that's my favorite country song
English translation
Summertime, Chicken Fried, Mama Tried
Country Boy, Country Boy Can Survive
Oh, Marina, My Maria, and My Amy
Outskirts Of Heaven and Sinners Like Me
Yeah, they might've lit a flame under these old boots
But they sure don't hold no candle to
A north wind blowin' through a patch of pines
Whippoorwills singin' 'bout summertime
Raindrops drummin' on rusted tin
Flathead draggin' out 20 pound Stren
Oh-whoa, strike up the fire, somebody cue the crickets in the creek bank choir
Gotta get back 'cause it's been too long
That's my favorite country song
Hound-dog howlin', tryna track it down
A straight pipes hummin', comin' back from town
Grease in the skillet goin' pop, pop, pop
Nah, you can't find that on an old jukebox
It's a John Deere clearin' out a rye-grass row
If you don't come from it, then you probably don't know
Yeah, you probably don't know
'Bout a north wind blowin' through a patch of pines
Whippoorwills singin' 'bout summertime
Raindrops drummin' on rusted tin
Flathead draggin' out 20 pound Stren
Oh-whoa, strike up the fire, somebody cue the crickets in the creek bank choir
Gotta get back 'cause it's been too long
That's my favorite country song
Oh, hallelujah, I know it that the good Lord wrote it
For a good ol' boy like me
On the back porch, sippin' on a cold beer
Listen to some home-sweet harmony
'Bout a north wind blowin' through a patch of pines
Whippoorwills singin' 'bout summertime
Raindrops drummin' on rusted tin
Flathead draggin' out 20 pound Stren
Like, oh-whoa, strike up the fire, somebody cue the crickets in the creek bank choir
Gotta get back 'cause it's been too long
That's my favorite country song
Oh, I said, that's my favorite country song