These Are My People - Rodney Atkins

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Embed: "Simple Man" and "Curtis Low", we were good yuh know

we got some discount knowledge at the junior college
where we majored in beer and girls
it was all real funny 'til we ran out of money
and they threw us out into the world
yeah the kids that thought they'd run this town
ain't runnin' much of anything
just lovin' and laughin'
and bustin' our asses
and we call it all livin' the dream

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these are my people
this is where i come from
we're givin' this life everything we've got and then some
it ain't always pretty
but it's real
It's the way we were made
wouldn't have it any other way
these are my people

well we take it all week on the chin with a grin
till we make it to a friday night
and it's church league softball holler 'bout a bad call
preacher breakin' up the fight
then later on at the green light tavern
well everybody's gatherin' as friends
and the beer is pourin' till monday mornin'
where we start all over again

chorus

we fall down and we get up
we walk proud and we talk tough
we got heart and we got nerve
even if we are a bit disturbed

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These Are My People Lyrics

Well we grew up down by the railroad tracks
shootin' b.b.'s at old beer cans
chokin' on the smoke from a lucky strike
somebody lifted off of his old man
we were football flunkies
Southern rock junkies
crackin' up the stereos
singin' loud and proud to "Gimme Three Steps"
"Simple Man" and "Curtis Low", we were good yuh know

we got some discount knowledge at the junior college
where we majored in beer and girls
it was all real funny 'til we ran out of money
and they threw us out into the world
yeah the kids that thought they'd run this town
ain't runnin' much of anything
just lovin' and laughin'
and bustin' our asses
and we call it all livin' the dream

chorus

these are my people
this is where i come from
we're givin' this life everything we've got and then some
it ain't always pretty
but it's real
It's the way we were made
wouldn't have it any other way
these are my people

well we take it all week on the chin with a grin
till we make it to a friday night
and it's church league softball holler 'bout a bad call
preacher breakin' up the fight
then later on at the green light tavern
well everybody's gatherin' as friends
and the beer is pourin' till monday mornin'
where we start all over again

chorus

we fall down and we get up
we walk proud and we talk tough
we got heart and we got nerve
even if we are a bit disturbed

chorus

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Rodney Atkins, born March 28, 1969 in Knoxville, Tennessee, is an American country singer. He was an adopted child. As an infant at the Holston Methodist Home for Children in Greeneville, Tennessee, he was so sick that two couples who had taken him home returned him just a few days later. A third couple from Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, adopted him as well and, even though his ailments worsened, refused to give him up. His adoptive mother had been raised in a coal mining family near a tannery camp, and his dad survived an upbringing marked by poverty and episodes of abuse. Rodney is married and has a 4-year-old son named Elijah, who is featured in the video for Rodney's song "Watching You". While his career had a bit of a slow start, he subsequently achieved success with his first #1 hit (If You're Going Through Hell) and the fast climbing follow-up single (Watching You). Contrary to popular belief, Rodney is not the son of Trace Adkins.

Songfacts.com reports that he lead-off single from Rodney Atkins' fourth album, titled Take a Back Road, finds the singer looking to leave the stress of the city. It was released on April 26, 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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