Way Down Yonder Lyrics
Up in the hills
Where coppers don't crack down on the them copper stills
We're makin' trap door, tax free, dollar bills
Up in the holler deals
An honest way to make a living
Six-shot heavy metal hangin' from a holster
In case we run into them boys from the county line over
[Chorus]
Way down yonder where the outlaws wander
You can feel that thunder in your bones
Rippin' hot rod runners under moonlight cover
Just some back glass gunners on the road
Where you buy your bud with your moonshine money
Make your love whеre the bees make honеy
When the cut's where you're born and raised
Man, it's in your blood, we were born this way down yonder
[Post-Chorus]
Way down, way down, way down
Way down yonder
[Verse 2]
You can't avoid
A bunch of Bootleg Bertie's and their bandit boys
On some outpost wanted-poster Polaroids
Sayin' "dead or alive," goin' eighty-five
Way down yonder where the outlaws wander
You can feel that thunder in your bones
Rippin' hot rod runners under moonlight cover
Just some back glass gunners on the road
Where you buy your bud with your moonshine money
Make your love where the bees make honey
When the cut's where you're born and raised
Man, it's in your blood, we were born this way down yonder
[Post-Chorus]
Way down, way down, way down
Way down yonder
Way down, way down, way down
Way down yonder
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Somewhere between the hooch and hell raisin'
We all need savin'
[Chorus]
Way down yonder where the outlaws wander
You can feel that thunder in your bones
Rippin' hot rod runners under moonlight cover
Some back glass gunners on the road
Where you buy your bud with your moonshine money
Make your love where the bees make honey
When the cut's where you're born and raised
Man, it's in your blood, we were born this way down yonder
Way down, way down, way down
Way down yonder
Way down, way down, way down
Way down yonder
[Outro]
Way down yonder
Way down yonder
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All of a sudden during the recording process, Rob McNelley started playing this crazy carnival sound on the acoustic… and it got Western quick. That turned it from a song I didn’t think was even going to make the cut for this next album into one of my favorite songs on the project.
–via CountrySwag (October, 2022)
“Way Down Yonder,’ that’s the title that would’ve belonged on one of my popular records or ‘bro country’ records. But then you hear the song, and you’re like, ‘Oh, it’s not that at all.’ First of all, it’s not that topic. I was adamant about that. I was like, ‘We’re not doing the truck, the dirt road, the girl, the moon, the stars, all the bullshit,’ which I think is hilarious because I just heard HARDY’s song ‘RADIO SONG.’ God. He kind of scares the shit out of me, but also, I’m very charmed. It’s just so good.
—via Apple Music
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