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I was sitting on a bar stool
At a barbeque joint in Tennessee
When this old boy walked in
And he sat right down next to me

I could tell he'd been through some hard times
There were tear stains on his old shirt
And he said, "You wanna know what you get
When you play a country song backwards?"

You get your house back
You get your dog back
You get your best friend Jack back
You get your truck back
You get your hair back
You get your first and second wives back
Your front porch swing
Your pretty little thing
Your bling, bling, bling and a diamond ring
You get your farm and the barn
And the boat and the Harley
First night in jail with Charlie
It sounds a little crazy
A little scattered and absurd
But that's what you get
When you play a country song backwards

Well, I never heard it said quite like that
It hit me in the face 'cause that's where I'm at
I almost fell flat out on the floor
He said, "Wait a minute. That's not all.
There's even more."

You get your mind back
Your nerves back
Your first heart attack back
You get your pride back
You get your life back
You get your first real love back
You get your big screen TV, a DVD
And a washing machine
You get the pond and the lawn
And the bail and the mower
You go back where you don't know her
It sounds a little crazy
A little scattered and absurd
But that's what you get
When you play a country song backwards

We sat there and shot the bull
About how it would be
If we could turn it all around
And change this C-R-A-P

You get your house back
You get your dog back
You get your best friend Jack back
You get your truck back
You get your hair back
You get your first and second wives back
Your front porch swing
Your pretty little thing
Your bling, bling, bling and a diamond ring
You get your farm and the barn
And the boat and the Harley
First night in jail with Charlie
You get your mind back
Your nerves back
Your first heart attack back
You get your pride back
You get your life back
You get your first real love back
You get your big screen TV, a DVD
And a washing machine
You get the pond and the lawn
And the bail and the mower
You go back where you don't know her
It sounds a little crazy
A little scattered and absurd
But that's what you get
When you play a country song backwards
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Cover art for Backwards lyrics by Rascal Flatts

well this ones tricky :P... so basically, the stereotypical country song is about everything going wrong. Now if you play a country song backwards (in other words, reversing the song) you get it all back and pretty much "live the life". This song (backwards) is obviously a country song being flipped around, resulting in a happy theme.

Cover art for Backwards lyrics by Rascal Flatts

i despise country to no end, but my mom loves this one, and it's catchy and witty.

Cover art for Backwards lyrics by Rascal Flatts

I've heard some of the hardcore country fans basically slagging this off, but I think it's just a tongue-in-cheek pop at traditional "my wife left me, my dog died" country songs

Cover art for Backwards lyrics by Rascal Flatts

Funny song:] Just poking fun at the sterotypical "girl left me, in jail, got drunk" country song.

Cover art for Backwards lyrics by Rascal Flatts

I don't understand this at all, but I like it!

 
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