-Performing "Come Back as a Country Boy,"
from the deluxe edition of his album, "Body Language,"
once again, Blake Shelton.
[ Cheers and applause ]
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-♪ When I die, I wanna come back as a country boy ♪
♪ No, there ain't no better life, if you ask me ♪
♪ If my neck don't come out red ♪
♪ Then, Lord, just keep me dead ♪
♪ 'Cause a country boy's all that I know how to be ♪
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♪ My back is always breakin' ♪
♪ My dogs are always barkin' ♪
♪ My money has trouble makin' ♪
♪ And my truck has trouble startin' ♪
♪ I'm up before the sun ♪
♪ Either haulin' hay or huntin' ♪
♪ My work ain't ever done ♪
♪ But, son, I wouldn't trade it for nothin' ♪
♪ So when I die, I wanna come back as a country boy ♪
♪ No, there ain't no better life, if you ask me ♪
♪ If my neck don't come out red ♪
♪ Then, Lord, just keep me dead ♪
♪ 'Cause a country boy is all that I know how to be ♪
♪ Yeah, if y'all ain't in my drawl ♪
♪ And a fish ain't on my wall ♪
♪ And the whiskey don't burn going down ♪
♪ My feet ain't in a holler ♪
♪ And blue ain't on my collar ♪
♪ Leave my hand-cranking ♪
♪ Beer-drinking ass in the ground ♪
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♪ When I die, I wanna come back as a country boy ♪
♪ No, there ain't no better life, if you ask me ♪
♪ If my neck don't come out red ♪
♪ Then, Lord, just keep me dead ♪
♪ 'Cause a country boy is all that I know how to be ♪
Come on!
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♪ When I die, I wanna come back as a country boy ♪
♪ Live off this land like my old man did before me ♪
♪ I don't wanna be born into money ♪
♪ Where the boots don't ever get muddy ♪
♪ 'Cause a country boy's all that I know how to be ♪
♪ When I die, I wanna come back as a country boy ♪
♪ No, there ain't no better life, if you ask me ♪
♪ If my neck don't come out red ♪
♪ Then, Lord, just keep me dead ♪
♪ 'Cause a country boy is all that I know how to be ♪
♪ Yeah, a country boy is all that I know how to be ♪
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[ Cheers and applause ]