Boys ’Round Here

    Singer: Blake Shelton

    Well the boys ’round here don’t listen to The Beatles

    Run ole Bocephus through a jukebox needle

    At a honky-tonk, where their boots stomp

    All night; what? (That’s right)

    Yea, and what they call work, digging in the dirt

    Gotta get it in the ground ‘fore the rain come down

    To get paid, to get the girl

    In your 4 wheel drive (A country boy can survive)

    Yea the boys ’round here

    Drinking that ice cold beer

    Talkin’ ’bout girls, talkin’ ’bout trucks

    Runnin’ them red dirt roads out, kicking up dust

    The boys ‘round here

    Sending up a prayer to the man upstairs

    Backwoods legit, don’t take no lip

    Chew tobacco, chew tobacco, chew tobacco, spit

    ...

    Well the boys ’round here, they’re keeping it country

    Ain’t a damn one know how to do the dougie

    (You don’t do the dougie?)

    No, not in Kentucky

    But these girls ’round here yep, they still love me

    Yea, the girls ‘round here, they all deserve a whistle

    Shakin’ that sugar, sweet as Dixie crystal

    They like that y’all and southern drawl

    And just can’t help it cause they just keep fallin’

    For the boys ’round here

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    Background

    The song, the second single from the singer’s seventh studio album, “Based on a True Story…,” is a celebration of Southern life.

    The meldoy is an interesting mixture of acoustic blues, a few hip-hop vibes, talkin’ song verses with a vocalized chorus which is definitely about the “good ole boys” and features the soothing harmonies of Pistol Annies, RaeLynn and others.