Die For My Country

from This Time Next Year by MDH

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The sidewalks of Nashville are covered with gold
I paid for my ticket with the songs that you sold on the golf course
And it forced me to fold

I hold my convictions real close to my heart
There's lots of good music forsook from the charts, I'll get lucky
After my next false start

You call up your family and lie down the phone
You wish that they'd leave you alone

I said I'd die for my country
In my boots and my spurs
Lay me next to John Henry
Where the prairie wind stirs
When my folks come to see me
They'll recollect what they heard
I said I'd die for my country
And I gave country my word

You found that the aces were stole from the deck
You've got all your near misses tied up round your neck, man it's heavy
But it keeps you in check

I could try some writing but I'm drinking instead
The advice I was given was laden with dread and false wisdom
And it went to my head

They can take my tape player and my beat-up car
But they won't take my Rhinestone guitar

Because I'll die for my country
In my boots and my spurs
Lay me next to John Henry
Where the prairie wind stirs
When my folks come to see me
They'll recollect what they heard
I said I'd die for my country
And I gave country my word

I said I'd die for my country
And I gave country my word

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from This Time Next Year, released April 6, 2018

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