Flint City Shake It - Justin Townes Earle

Detroit rock baby, that’s a fact

Anybody say different, better get back Jack

Well you’ve gotta be tough but there’s a good time to be had

I’d like to think everybody here knows that

So let’s talk about a place that you might not know

Just a little further on up the road

Well you know about meat, baby, let’s get down to the bones

Tell you 'bout a place that really made America roll

Flint City shake it (Flint City shake it)

Flint City shake it (Flint City shake it)

Let 'em all know (Let 'em all know)

Let 'em all know (Let 'em all know)

Detroit rock but Flint City roll

Now the truth is, we ain’t what we used to be

Whole lotta trouble come to our streets

The only one to blame is GMC

If you don’t know, baby, let me tell you how I mean

We built Buick cars, GM trucks

Chevy engines, AC, sparkplugs

Built planes for the war back in '41

Every piece straight from the ground on up

Then trouble come in '86

With this son of a bitch named Roger Smith

Cut our throat with a stroke of a fountain pen

Been knocked down, but we’re gonna get up again

Flint City shake it (Flint City shake it)

Flint City shake it (Flint City shake it)

Let 'em all know (Let 'em all know)

Let 'em all know (Let 'em all know)

Detroit rock but Flint City roll

Well there ain’t no work and everybody’s hurtin'

It’s been that way for a while

They ain’t got us licked just yet

Flint City knows how to have a good time

Well we might be poor and we might be rough

We’re just good people down on our luck

And you know it seems nobody cares about us

We just ain’t the kind to give up

Flint City shake it (Flint City shake it)

Flint City shake it (Flint City shake it)

Let 'em all know (Let 'em all know)

Let 'em all know (Let 'em all know)

Detroit rock but Flint City roll

Detroit rock but Flint City roll