Ain't Life Sweet You can take your money You can keep it Can't tell me who to become You can take your age old wisdom With you to kingdom come Because degrees and all that education Sure don't matter where I come from I was born and raised in the boonies Beside the river my home I was born and raised in the boonies Beside the river my home Ain't life sweet, we know what we're doing Ain't life sweet, when we're not afraid to care Ain't life sweet, we know what we're doing Ain't life sweet, when we're not afraid to care Tell me not the run with the wild ones Tell me to talk real clean Tell me to act as straight as you Not to act so mean And I've got deep feelings about Those last words leaving you I was born and raised in the boonies I was fed on irish stew
I was born and raised in the boonies I was fed on irish stew Ain't life sweet, we know what we're doing Ain't life sweet, when we're not afraid to care Ain't life sweet, we know what we're doing Ain't life sweet, when we're not afraid to care You can have a house in the country You can have one in the city too You can borrow one in Europe Or what about Timbuktu You can have it all in a nutshell And together like crazy glue You can lie with me in my country shack And dismiss the things that I do You can lie with me in my country shack And dismiss the things that I do Ain't life sweet, we know what we're doing Ain't life sweet, when we're not afraid to care Ain't life sweet, we know what we're doing Ain't life sweet, when we're not afraid to care