Hillbilly Bone

Hillbilly Bone (ft. Trace Adkins) appears on Hillbilly Bone, Blake Shelton’s EP released on March 2, 2010. It was released as a radio single on October 24, 2009.

It also appears on Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton (2010) and Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits (2015). A live version was released as a pre-order only track on the iTunes Deluxe Edition of Red River Blue (2011).

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written by Luke Laird, Craig Wiseman

Oh man, you've got to watch where you're steppin’ around here

Yeah, I got a friend in New York City
He's never heard of Conway Twitty
Don't know nothin’ about grits and greens
Never been south of Queens
But he flew down here on a business trip
I took him honky tonkin’ and that was it
He took to it like a pig to mud, like a cow to cud

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside
No matter where you from you just can't hide it
And when the band starts bangin’ and the fiddle saws
You can't help but hollerin’ “Yee Haw!”
When you see them pretty little country queens
Man, you gotta admit that it’s in them genes
Ain’t nothing wrong, just gettin’ on your
Hillbilly bone-ba-bone-ba-bone-bone

Ah, preach about hillbilly to ‘em, Blake.

Listen to this.

Nah, you aren’t got to be born out in the sticks
With an F-150 and a 30-06
Or have a bubba in the family tree
To get on down with me
Yeah, bubba, all you need is an open mind
If it fires you up you got to let it shine
When it feels so right that it can't be wrong
Come on, come on, come on

You ain’t alone
You ain’t alone

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside
No matter where you from you just can't hide it
And when the band starts bangin’ and the fiddle saws
You can't help but hollerin’ “Yee Haw!”
When you see them pretty little country queens
Man, you gotta admit that it’s in them genes
Ain’t nothing wrong, just gettin’ on your
Hillbilly bone-ba-bone-ba-bone-bone

Come on y'all

We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside
No matter where you from you just can't hide it
And when the band starts bangin’ and the fiddle saws
You can't help but hollerin’ “Yee Haw!”
When you see them pretty little country queens
Man, you gotta admit that it’s in them genes
Ain’t nothing wrong, just gettin’ on your
Hillbilly bone-ba-bone-ba-bone-bone
Hillbilly bone-ba-bone-ba-bone-bone
Hillbilly bone-ba-bone-ba-bone-bone
Hillbilly bone-ba-bone-ba-bone-bone

Well, there it is
I’ve always wanted to sing a bone song