In The Backwoods - Those Poor Bastards

Well I was raised by

Papa Misery

And Mama Guitar

I never had no

Place to call home

Except for the woods behind the pond

In the backwoods

In the backwoods

That’s where I belong

Sister Merry

And brother Gently lost their homes in the big black mud

(They lost it all, yeah)

They moved to Georgia

But I didn’t follow

I stayed back home to tend the farm

I got me a dog, he’s got no eyes

I cut 'em out 'cause I though he was watchin' me

So I got me a girl, she got no legs

I cut 'em off so she wouldn’t go cheatin'

(yeah, no more cheatin' now)

In the backwoods

(I know I done some things wrong)

In the backwoods

(But it got just so dog-gone lonesome)

That’s where I belong

In the backwoods

In the backwoods

That’s where I belong

In the backwoods

In the backwoods

That’s where I belong

In the backwoods