What This Country Needs

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 If I was a running this country
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 I'd start it over from scratch
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 Keep what's good, pile up what's bad
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 And then I'd strike the match
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 Yeah, we go back to the basics
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 Of how things ought to be
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 Yeah, there'd be a line of changes
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 If it was left up to me


 CHORUS:
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 Cause what this country needs
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 Is a little more steel guitar
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 And put a little fiddle right in the middle
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 Straight out of a Texas bar
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 And give us a song we can all sing along
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 From sea to shining sea

 Yeah be proud of it and always love it
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 That's what this country needs


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 Now if you want to hear about living
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 Just twist that radio dial
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 You come to a singer singing what life's all about
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 But you can't deny that people still cry
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 They laugh and they smile and they hurt
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 That's my humble opinion y'all
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 you can take it for what it's worth


 CHORUS:
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 Cause what this country needs
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 Is a little more steel guitar
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 And put a little fiddle right in the middle
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 Straight out of a Texas bar
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 And give us a song we can all sing along
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 From sea to shining sea

 Yeah be proud of it and always love it
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 That's what this country needs


 BRIDGE:
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 Yeah turn it on up and let it ring out
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 Across the land of the free
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 They ought to build a statue to Hank Williams Senior
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 And watch it change the scenery


 CHORUS:
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 Cause what this country needs
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 Is a little more steel guitar
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 Yea put a sawing fiddle right square in the middle
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 Straight out of a Texas bar
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 And y'all give us a song that we all can sing
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 From sea to shining sea
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 Yeah be proud of it and always love it
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 That's what this country needs