You Can't Take My Backroads

Back when I was just a kid, they'd take me out past Range Road Bridge

I'd drop a line and be catching fish all day

Yeah, I got those old Camaro keys that afternoon I turned sixteen

And I made my first James Dean getaway

But you can't take my backroads

You can't steal my redneck memories

You can't take my backroads

You can't take my backroads away from me

Yeah, this old graduation night I took what's-her-name and I held her tight

And they helped me get her home before the dawn

Those roads know things nobody knows, how fast my broken heart can go

When I heard that she was moving on

But you can't take my backroads

You can't steal my redneck memories

You can't take my backroads

You can't take my backroads away from me, no

You can't take my backroads

Yeah, I can see 'em all so clear

In a cloud of dust in my rearview mirror

Most of them have gone away

They keep turning into interstates

But you can't take my backroads

You can't steal my redneck memories

You can't take my backroads

You can't take my backroads away from me

You can't take my backroads away from me

No, you can't take my backroads away from me

You can't take my backroads