Lyrics

You Don?t Have To Be Country (To Love A Good Old Country Song)


Who says you need a cowboy hat to like a song that has a little steel guitar?
Who says you gotta wear some boots and your Wranglers too, down at the Country bar?
Who says you gotta say, ?Hey Y?all?; have a big-ol? drawl to sing a honky-tonk line?
Well, I?m sayin? you?d better listen, you don?t know what you?re missin?,
Let me tell ya a little secret of mine.

You don?t have to be Country to love a good old Country song,
You don?t have to do the two-step when you feel like dancin? along.
You just gotta feel the music; you gotta feel it from your head to your toes.
That?s why people love Country, ?cause it?s music that comes straight from the soul.

Who says you gotta drive a truck to listen to this stuff on the radio?
Who says you need to own a farm, ride a horse from the barn, sayin?, ?Giddy-up, let?s go!??
Who says you only sing sad songs about the things gone wrong,
Like losin? jobs and dogs and husbands and wives?
Well, I?m sayin? you?d better listen, you don?t know what you?re missin?,
Let me tell you a little secret of mine.

You don?t have to be Country to love a good old Country song,
You don?t have to do the two-step when you feel like dancin? along.
You just gotta feel the music; you gotta feel it from your head to your toes.
That?s why people love Country, ?cause it?s music that comes straight from the soul.

Who says you only sing sad songs about the things gone wrong?
Like losin? jobs and dogs and husbands and wives.

You don?t have to be Country to love a good old Country song,
You don?t have to do the two-step when you feel like dancin? along.
You just gotta feel the music; you gotta feel it from your head to your toes.
That?s why people love Country, ?cause it?s music that comes straight from the soul.
That?s why people love Country, ?cause it?s music that comes straight from the soul.


2003 by Stacy Donahue and Tom Sparks