Country Rhythm

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This song was written and inspired by our first gig… “The Barn.” Our band was named “Out of Town” at the time and was a bluegrass-band-turned-country. My brother Sam managed us (and the sound board) while we provided the music and Shannon taught the line dances. This particular song had it’s own custom line dance… and no, I don’t recall the steps. It was good times in a place and time long since gone. Recorded for the Shadow of a Dream project.

The fiddle’s pumping so I get out on the floor/ My cowboy boots are shuffling till they can’t take no more/ This coun-try rhythms rocking to the backwoods beat/ The steel gui-tar breaks in to turn up the heat 

Build: Well you take a little rhythm and you throw in the blues/ And add a lot of country for that two stepping groove/ You got your tush push, double step, touch and go/ Moving to the rhythm with it hillbilly soul/ It’s a heel clicking, high stepping, hand clapping country groove  

Chorus: It’s Country Rhythm/ It’s Country Rhythm/ It’s Country Rhythm/ It’s Country Rhythm/ Well it’s heel click-ing/ High stepping/ Hand clapping country groove 

Over in the corner with her records stacked high/ Shannon plays the tunes while the moon goes by/ The people in the barn they don’t seem to care/ Let the world go by just as long as they’re here 

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Now the rhythm’s hot and simple the words are short and sweet/ There is no philosophizing it is just all about the beat/ So forget about your worries, forget about your cares/ Get out on the floor and let down your hair 

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