[Verse 1] We got the biggest dog you ever saw Sprawled on the porch cooling off Down at our place His name is Ace We got the humming birds coming in Hitting those sugar water feeders Then buzzing off again Floating in the wind Then the sunset melts into a line of pines Yeah life is slow out here But it sure suits me fine [Chorus] Cause it's the simple things that strum my strings The baby cries the moma sings her back to sleep Ohh it sounds so sweet Its putting in a hard days work Coming home and putting on a clean T-shirt It's a friends and family gathering A neck to hug a joke to tell and a dish to bring Yeah it's the simple things Yeah [Verse 2] Like taking my boy to the river on Sundays Hunting Tadpoles and Indian money And I just laugh While is flipflops splash Then we spray em off cause we don't want chiggers Baiting our hooks with chicken liver Going yellow cat fishing A little whisker lip ripping I love it when he says daddy give me five And watching him grunt and grin while his reeling in That flat head on his line [Chorus][x3] [Outro] Mmm It's the simple things That'sit