Tired of Being Johnny B. Good

I don't like instant ice tea

And I ain't crazy about dollar a gallon self serve gasoline

And 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 kind of 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 peoples that agree with what I say

Don't tell me to ride a bus and turn down my thermostat

When you're all running 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 Goods and we gotta be Johnny Rebs

Yeah, we 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 Goods and we gotta be Johnny Reb

We're tired of being Johnny B Goods and we gonna be Johnny Reb