Well I was raised by Papa Misery and Mama Guitar I never had no place to call home except for the woods behind the pond
In the backwoods In the backwoods that's where I belong
Sister Merry and brother Gently they lost their homes in the big black mud (They lost it all, yeah)
They moved to Georgia But I didn't follow I stayed back home to tend the farm I got me a dog, he's got no eyes I cut 'em out 'cause I though he was watchin' me So I got me a girl, she got no legs I cut 'em off so she wouldn't go cheatin' (yeah, no more cheatin' now)
In the backwoods (I know I done some things wrong) In the backwoods (But it got just so dog-gone lonesome) That's where I belong
In the backwoods In the backwoods that's where I belong
In the backwoods In the backwoods that's where I belong