Some well-meaning people
Are trying to change us
Saying we've been
Too country too long
They tell me from now on
The world is progressed
And I won't sell out for a song
I grew up when Roy
And ET and Kitty
And Lefty and Hank
Were the rage
It was good enough then
So it's good enough now
Cause the good wine
Gets better with age
What's wrong with the way that
We're doing it now?
What's wrong with fiddles and steels?
What's wrong with telling
The world that you're country
If that's how you really do feel?
So let's don't make it different
Let's just make it better
It's gotten us about till now
I am what I am
And I'm proud that I am
What's wrong with the way
That we're doing it now?
Well, the sad part about it
Is all of the fans
Who would like
To hear country and can't
And most of those stations
Ain't fooling nobody
When they call themselves country
But ain't
So please mister DJ
I'm proud to be country
Whether concert
Or honky tonk joints
So give this a listen
And if you won't play it
My friend
You're just proving the point
What's wrong with the way that
We're doing it now?
What's wrong with fiddles and steels?
What's wrong with telling
The world that you're country
If that's how you really do feel?
So let's don't make it different
Let's just make it better
It's gotten us about till now
I am what I am
And I'm proud that I am
What's wrong with the way
That we're doing it now?
What's wrong with the way
That we're doing it now?