Blake Shelton

Released: February 4, 2003

Songwriter: Don Ellis Gatlin Billy Montana Blake Shelton

Producer: Bobby Braddock

[Verse 1]
Grandpa's down
By the two lane
In the blazing sun
Or pouring rain
Sells tomatoes
From the back
Of his pickup truck
Reads the Bible line for line
While sipping on
Some homemade wine

That's who he is
And what he does
He's just like us

My Dad's got
A crippled hand
A casualty of Vietnam
But he's still down
At the sawmill every day
Oh and first thing
'Fore the break of dawn
Mama's got his eggs
And coffee on

My whole life
It's been that way

[Chorus]
We come from
Back in the hollers
We got sweat
On our blue collars
The living's hard
But the living's good
You see God sent
The heavens down
And hung them around
My neck of the woods

[Verse 2]
Just as sure as the river flows
We take care of our own
Step right up when someone needs a friend

Last year on the Johnson farm
A fire wiped out the house and barn
The whole town showed up
To build them back again, all right

[Chorus][x2]

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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