Blake Shelton

Released: October 1, 2021

Songwriter: HARDY Josh Thompson Jordan Schmidt

Producer: Scott Hendricks

[Chorus]
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

[Verse 1]
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'

[Chorus]
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's all that I know how to be

[Verse 2]
Yeah, if y'all ain't in my drawl and a fish ain't on my wall
And the whiskey don't burn goin' down
My feet ain't in a holler, and blue ain't on my collar
Leave my Hank-crankin', beer-drinkin' ass in the ground

[Chorus]
Yeah, 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

[Bridge]
When I die I wanna come back as a country boy
Live on 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

[Chorus]
Yeah, 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
Yeah, a country boy's all that I know how to be

Blake Tollison Shelton was born June 18, 1976, in Ada, Oklahoma to Richard (used car salesman)and Dorothy Shelton (beauty salon owner). He had a brother, Richie who was killed in an auto accident. The 6'5" country music singer/songwriter/TV personality has been married and divorced twice. First to Kaynette “Katt” Williams. The pair married on November 17, 2003, in the Smoky Mountains and divorced in 2006. Blake married country music star Miranda Lambert on May 14, 2011, and they split in 2015.

Blake was in two or three pageants starting when he was six or seven years old. He sang “Cat Scratch Fever” by Ted Nugent and “Old Time Rock

‘n Roll” by Bob Seger.

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