When number three is just a number and hank is just a name

When trucks don't sound like thunder and nobody prays for rain

When you don't hear "yes, sir," "yes, ma'am," or "jesus" on fm

Hell, I hope I'm in heaven by then.

No, I don't wanna go today, but I don't wanna live

Down here at a place that thinks that that place don't exist

If there comes a day this country's somewhere country don't fit in

Hell, I hope I'm in heaven by then.

When they pave all the dirt roads and john deeres are dinosaurs

When the last back forty gets old and young boys don't open doors

When you can't hunt a white tail and keep what you reel in

Well, I hope I'm in heaven by then.

Oh, I don't wanna go today, but I don't wanna live

Down here at a place that thinks that that place don't exist

If there comes a day this country's somewhere country don't fit in

Hell, I hope I'm in heaven by then.

Y'all, let me go now.

If I don't wake up tomorrow

To a world that I don't know

Y'all don't cry for this old boy

It's just my time to go.

And I don't wanna go today, but I don't wanna live

Down here at a place that thinks that that place don't exist

If there comes a day this country's somewhere country don't fit in

Hell, I hope I'm in heaven by then.

Hell, I hope I'm in heaven by then.