Boots and Backroads

Verse 1

Grew up on a dirt road

Red clay underneath my boots

Daddy taught me how to work

And how to shoot straight and true

Tractor rows and fence line posts

That was all I ever knew

Till a recruiter shook my hand

And said son we got room for you

Pre-Chorus

Mama cried at the kitchen table

Told her I'd be back someday

Left my truck in the gravel drive

And I shipped the very next day

Chorus

I'm a country boy turned soldier now

Mud on my boots and a rifle in hand

Country boy turned soldier now

Fighting for my home and my promised land

From the holler to the sand

I still stand where I was born to stand

Post-Chorus

Hoo-rah, hoo-rah

Boots on the ground, boots on the ground

Hoo-rah, hoo-rah

Ain't no quit in me now

Verse 2

Basic training broke me down

Then it built me back up mean

Drill sergeant yelling in my face

I just thought of my front porch screen

Learned to march and learned to crawl

Learned to lean on my platoon

Every flag I see I swear

I'd give it everything I own

Pre-Chorus

Got a picture in my pocket

Of a girl back in my hometown

She writes me every single week

Says she's holding my ground

Chorus

I'm a country boy turned soldier now

Mud on my boots and a rifle in hand

Country boy turned soldier now

Fighting for my home and my promised land

From the holler to the sand

I still stand where I was born to stand

Post-Chorus

Hoo-rah, hoo-rah

Boots on the ground, boots on the ground

Hoo-rah, hoo-rah

Ain't no quit in me now

Bridge

When I come home on leave

I'll kiss that red dirt ground

Raise a cold one to the ones

Who never made it out

Chorus

I'm a country boy turned soldier now

Mud on my boots and a rifle in hand

Country boy turned soldier now

Fighting for my home and my promised land

From the holler to the sand

I still stand where I was born to stand

Post-Chorus

Hoo-rah, hoo-rah

Boots on the ground, boots on the ground

Hoo-rah, hoo-rah

Ain't no quit in me now