Backwards (Album Version)

I was sitting on a bar stool

In a barbecue joint in Tennessee

When this old boy walked in

And he sat right down next to me

I could tell he'd been through some hard times

There were tearstains on his old shirt

And he said you wanna know what you get

When you play a country song backwards

You get your house back

You get your dog back

You get your best friend jack back

You get your truck back

You get your hair back

You get your first and second wife back

Your front porch swing

Your pretty little thing

Your bling bling bling and a diamond ring

You get your farm with a barn

And a boat and the harley

First nite in jail with charlie

Sounds a little crazy a little scattered and absurd

That's what you get

When you play a country song backwards

Well I never heard it said quite like that

It hit me in the face 'cause that's where I'm at

I almost fell flat out on the floor

He said wait a minute that's not all there's even more

You get your mind back

And your nerves back

Your first heart attack back

You get your pride back

You get your life back

You get your first real love back

You get your big screen TV DVD and washing machine

You get the phone and the lawn

And the bed and the mower

You go back where you don't know her

It sounds a little crazy a little scattered and absurd

But that's what you get

When you play a country song backwards

Oh play that song

We sat there and shot the bull

About how it would be

But if we could turn it all around

And change this C R A P

Ya get your house back ya get your dog back

Ya get your best friend Jack back

Ya get your truck back ya get your hair back

Ya get your first and second wives back

Your front porch swing your pretty little thing

Your bling bling bling and a diamond ring

You get your farm and the barn

And the boat and the harley

First night in jail with charlie

Ya get your mind back your nerves back

Your first heart attack back

You get your pride back get your life back

And you get your first real love back

You get your big screen TV

A DVD and a washing machine

You get the pond and the lawn

And the bail and the mower

You get to go back where you don't know her

It sounds a little crazy

A little scattered and absurd

But that's what you get

When you play a country song backwards

Hey yeah eee yeah