gimme a river and a cypress tree a day of good weather and i will be as happy as a little green frog in the rain gimme a shellcracker on the line deep fried potatoes and a homemade wine and a woman to work it off later and cry my name it don t take much it don t take much it don t take much to please a redneck like me gimme a truck with four good tires a cheap have a tampa and my desires will not exceed the limits of my means i don t need no porsche car no pumped up music or a whacked out bar no ghost white chicky dressed up like a bad black dream it don t take much it don t take much it don t take much to please a redneck like me i have seen it all in my life running up and down the road in overdrive but now the time has come to take it easy it don t take much it don t take much it don t take much to please a redneck like me a redneck like me a redneck like me