Ronnie's totin' shingles up a ladder for Steve 
'Cause Steve fixed Ronnie's transmission last week 
Friday night there'll be spaghetti, five dollars a plate 
To help get Curtis Wright's doctor bills paid 
Every able bodied man is a fire department volunteer 
The rats don't race around here 

They got thirty day credit at the hardware store 
You don't need a Mastercard to buy a two-by-four 
Saturday's for fishin' and Sunday's for church 
Here it ain't a career, it's five days of work 
A trash man's a trash man not a sanitation engineer 
The rats don't race around here 

There ain't no need to ride a bus in to work each day 
Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place 
You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere 
But the rats don't race around here 

There ain't no need to ride a bus in to work each day 
Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place 
You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere 
Somebody wins a trophy at the drap strip every year 
But the rats don't race around here 
Ya'll, the rats don't race around here 
We like that domestic beer