FIRST TIME listening to Hank Williams Jr. "A Country Boy Can Survive"(Official Music Video) REACTION

Old country has soul to it. New country is pop music.

Yeah I grew up in a mostly rural area and it was common for kids to have guns in their cars and trucks at school(for hunting or just some fun at the range). There was next to no school security either. Then everything went crazy in this country and people started losing their sense of personal responsibility.

I’ve got a shotgun a rifle and a four-wheel-drive and a country boy can survive truer words have never been spoken

The song survives because it's filled with truth.

Song is 40 years old and still relevant today. Same stuff he wrote about then is hitting us again. True classic.

When I was in high school in the early 80's, everyone one had trucks and they kept their rifles in a gun rack mounted in the cab over the back window. We'd go hunting after school. Not a single one of those guns ever shot anyone imagine that:).

We would fall apart as a country if us country boys didn’t exist.

"The Ride" by David Allen Coe STILL puts chills on me!

I graduated from high school in 1970. If you looked in the parking lot you would see a couple of dozen pickups with rifle racks in the back window! Most of us had a .22 rifle for varmints and a shotgun for bigger critters. It was a different time and a different world. When we had a beef with someone we fought it out with our fists. No one ever dreamed of using our rifles. Being young in a small town of 600 people in TEXAS 🇨🇱 was a fantastic way to grow up.💯🤗❤️✌️

I tell you what if this song don’t get you hyped to be a country boy… living off the land, sticking it to the govt, and and just having a good ole time 🤘🏼

Young lady, I am beyond impressed that you are listening to hank.

The story is..." we don't need people, people need us."

Hank ain’t lying, a country boy can survive. 🇺🇸

My grandmother was born in 1922 and grew up during the Great Depression. She and her family lived in the Appalachian mountains - very rural. She said nobody in the area ever had much money, but grew their own food and raised chickens and had a cow. So generally the depression didn't affect them much. She said she did know that they never had it very hard because, "we always had biscuit for breakfast. Everybody had cornbread for supper but you knew people were having hard times when they had cornbread for breakfast." I thought about it and understood - everybody grew corn. The miller would grind the corn to meal for a portion of the cornmeal so it didn't require any money. Nobody grew wheat, though, because the land wasn't flat enough and the farms were too small. So to have biscuits for breakfast you had to have at least enough cash to buy flour. But even people in her area who were having "hard times" had food.

I am from South East Georgia when I was in high school in the late 80s early 90s we had guns in our trucks. we carried pocket knives and everyone knew it. guns are a way of life. got my first 22 at 5 years old

I like this girl she's open-minded and she at least listens and tries to get ideas for Stuff we need more people like this.

I'm from West Virginia and I can relate to that song. My grandmother had a farm and root cellar, water well and out house. My father could farm and hunt and fish .We had guns when we were kids but was taught how to be safe with them. When the grocery stores are raided and run out of food guess who will survive!

Having grown up in southern IL, know exactly what you mean. When this came out, it was my high school's un-official song. It's exactly what it was like. We had guns in our trucks parked in the school's parking lot and not a thing was said about it. If you went deer hunting on the first day of deer season, it was an excused absence, and many of the teachers were out too. Hank is Outlaw Country.

When we were in high school, inevitably for "speech class" someone would do a "demonstrative speech" about how to clean a long rifle or shotgun ... and nobody ever batted an eye out about it ... just waltz right through the school's front doors with your shotgun and down the hallway to the classroom. It was about as unusual as bringing in your downhill skis and doing a demonstration on how to repair and wax the ski bottoms ... another common one. How times have changed. Definitely a more innocent time.

Dixie proud long live the south . Country boy from Texas 💪