Kicked Outta Country – George Strait

I just got the news today,
The record I sent them: they threw it away
It don’t fit the format, don’t make the list
They say I’m too old, won’t even be missed

It happened to Jones, and even The Hag,
Waylon and Willie, and the great Johnny Cash
Kicked ’em right out without even a word
But that ain’t the end of the story I heard

‘Cause Cash stomped out the footlights
And Haggard for long had a ball
And Willie and Waylon and Kris toured the nation
And Jones never showed up at all

They lived what they wrote, and they wrote what they sang
And getting kicked outta country didn’t hurt a thing
Getting kicked outta country didn’t hurt a thing

I just wrote a new song today
Pulled out my old guitar and I started to play
Pressing my fingers into the strings
I felt the feelings a country song brings

I did some Jones, and one for The Hag,
Waylon and Willie, and the great Johnny Cash
They all got kicked outta country back then
And then one day country came calling again

And Cash stomped out the footlights
And Haggard for long had a ball
And Willie and Waylon and Kris toured the nation
And Jones showed up after all

They lived what they wrote, and they wrote what they sang
And getting kicked outta country didn’t hurt a thing
Getting kicked outta country didn’t hurt a thing

Well, It don’t really matter, ’cause I ain’t gonna change
‘Cause getting kicked outta country, won’t hurt a thing