I learned if you wanna eat breakfast in the morning Be in the kitchen by 6 a.m. Learned by September that you better have your corn in Best bass bait is a baby brim How to cuss, how to pray Drive a truck and bale hay are on my backroad resume It's down with the sun, up with the chickens .30-06 and a bluetick hound Harvest moon means soybeans need picking Fish won't bite when the cows lay down Learned "I Saw The Light" with the congregation Part of my country education Those cheap guitars and post hole diggers Put hard earned callouses on my hands Can't scratch off them blackberry chiggers And long winters won't fade my farmer's tan Muddy boots, tractor grease Twenty-twos, thirty-threes is how I got my PhD It's down with the sun, up with the chickens .30-06 and a bluetick hound Harvest moon means soybeans need picking Fish won't bite when the cows lay down Learned "I Saw The Light" with the congregation Part of my country education How to cuss, how to pray Skin a buck and bale hay Muddy boots, tractor grease Twenty-twos and thirty-threes It's down with the sun, up with the chickens .30-06 and a bluetick hound Harvest moon means soybeans need picking Fish won't bite when the cows lay down Learned "I Saw The Light" with the congregation Part of my country, part of my country Part of my country education Yeah, it's a backwoods, blue collar, working man's degree