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You're Just a Country Boy Lyrics

Ain't gonna marry in the fall
Ain't gonna marry in the spring
For you're in love with a pretty little girl
Who wears a diamond ring

You're just a country boy
Money, have you none
You've got silver in the stars
Gold, in the morning sun
Gold, in the morning sun

Never gonna kiss the ruby red lips
Of the prettiest girl in town
Never gonna ask her if she'd marry you
She only turn you down

Cause you're just a country boy
Money, have you none
But you've got silver in the stars
Gold, in the morning sun
Gold, in the morning sun

Never could afford a store bought ring
With a sparkling diamond stone
All you can afford is a loving heart
The only one you own

Cause you're just a country boy
Money, have you none
But you've got silver in the stars
Gold, in the morning sun
Gold, in the morning sun
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Cover art for You're Just a Country Boy lyrics by Alison Krauss

Sounds like a guy whose not the best looking, smartest, or richest, but just a plain country guy and he's in love with the "prettiest girl in town" but she doesn't love him back because she is engaged to another guy and he'll never get her because of who he is.

Cover art for You're Just a Country Boy lyrics by Alison Krauss

This is one of my favorites. Don Williams version is equally as good, just sung from first person perspective.

Yeah pretty much agree, its a guy who doesn't have a lot to give other than his full love and dedication. I don't think the woman shunned him though, i think she probably had more love for him, than her richer suitor, but he lost the battle because what he had to give wouldn't provide the life she wanted. I say this because he laments so deeply about the kiss and mentions the marriage he would never have, so there seems to have been something real there once. Something that he had and lost, rather than never had at all.

 
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