i don t like instant ice tea and i ain t crazy about dollar a gallon self service gasoline they nearly broke me with the high price of beef and the funny thing is they think they re putting this over on me i ve always been an upstanding citizen but i am getting fed up now my friends and if you don t understand what i ve said i m tired of being johnny b good and i m gonna be johnny reb yeah i m gonna be johnny reb cause i don t believe everything i ve seen and read and i work like hell just to keep a roof and a bed i m tired of being johnny b good and i m gonna be johnny reb this country s gettin in a kinda bad shape when the gasoline profits are up up and away and i can barely live on my take home pay there s a whole lot of people that agree to what i say don t tell me to ride a bus and turn down my thermostat when you re all runnin around in jets and cadillacs i can t take this lying down we gotta try and fight back till they believe what we said we re tired of being johnny b good and we gotta be johnny rebs yeah we re gonna be johnny rebs cause we don t believe everything we ve seen and read and we work like hell just to keep a roof and a bed we re tired of being johnny b good and we gotta be johnny rebs we re tired of being johnny b good and we gotta be johnny rebs