Rats Don't Race

Ronnie's totin' shingles up a ladder for Steve

'Cause Steve fixed Ronnie's transmission last week

Friday night there'll be spaghetti, five dollars a plate

To help get Curtis Wright's doctor bills paid

Every able bodied man is a fire department volunteer

The rats don't race around here

They got thirty day credit at the hardware store

You don't need a Mastercard to buy a two-by-four

Saturday's for fishin' and Sunday's for church

Here it ain't a career, it's five days of work

A trash man's a trash man not a sanitation engineer

The rats don't race around here

Chorus:

There ain't no need to ride a bus in to work each day

Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place

You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere

But the rats don't race around here

There ain't no need to ride a bus in to work each day

Nobody's fightin' for a parkin' place

You might get passed on the road by an old John Deere

Somebody wins a trophy at the drap strip every year

But the rats don't race around here

Ya'll, the rats don't race around here

We like that domestic beer