Gimme a river and a cypress tree

A day of good weather, and I will be

As happy as a little green frog in the rain

Gimme a shellcracker on the line

Deep fried potatoes, and a homemade wine

And a woman to work it off later and cry my name

It don't take much, it don't take much

It don't take much to please

A redneck like me



Gimme a truck with four good tires

A cheap Have-A-Tampa, and my desires

Will not exceed the limits of my means

I don't need no Porsche car

No pumped-up music or a whacked-out bar

No ghost-white chicky, dressed up like a bad, black dream

It don't take much, it don't take much

It don't take much to please

A redneck like me



I have seen it all in my life

Running up and down the road in overdrive

But now the time has come to take it easy

It don't take much, it don't take much

It don't take much to please

A redneck like me

A redneck like me

A redneck like me