Buy Dirt Song Lyrics by Jordan Davis and Luke Bryan
A few days ‘fore he turned eightyHe was sitting out back in a rockerHe said, “What you been up to lately?”I told him, “Chasing a dollar”And in between sips of coffeeHe poured this wisdom outSaid, “If you want my two cents on making a dollar count
Buy dirtFind the one you can’t live withoutGet a ring, let your knee hit the groundDo what you love but call it workAnd throw a little money in the plate at churchSend your prayers up and your roots down deepAdd a few limbs to your family treeAnd watch their pencil marksAnd the grass in the yardAll grow up‘Cause the truth about it isIt all goes by real quickYou can’t buy happinessBut you can buy dirt”
Before you get caught on that ladderLet me tell you what it’s all aboutFind you a few things that matterThat you can put a fence aroundAnd then he laid it out
Buy dirtFind the one you can’t live withoutGet a ring, let your knee hit the groundDo what you love but call it workAnd throw a little money in the plate at churchSend your prayers up and your roots down deepAnd add a few limbs to your family treeAnd watch their pencil marksAnd the grass in the yardAll grow up‘Cause the truth about it isIt all goes by real quickYou can’t buy happinessBut you can buy dirt
You can buy dirt
And thank the good Lord for it‘Cause He ain’t makin’ any more of it
So buy dirtFind the one you can’t live withoutGet a ring, let your knee hit the groundDo what you love but call it workAnd throw a little money in the plate at churchSend your prayers up and your roots down deepAdd a few limbs to your family treeWatch their pencil marksAnd the grass in the yardAll grow up‘Cause the truth about it isIt all goes by real quickYou can’t buy happinessBut you can buy dirt