I’m Just A Country Boy.

Songwriters: American folk singer, guitarist, producer and songwriter, the late Fred Hellerman (1927-2016) and American lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director, the late Marshall Barer (1923-1998).
Vocals: American country music singer, songwriter, and 2010 inductee into the Country Music Hall of Fame, the late Don Williams (1939-2017).

One of the gentlest country No. 1s of the late ’70s – ‘I’m Just a Country Boy’, – a 1977 hit from that era.

I’m Just A Country Boy.

I ain’t gonna marry in the fall.
Ain’t gonna marry in the spring,
‘Cause I’m in love with a pretty little girl,
Who wears a diamond ring.
And I’m just a country boy,
Money have I none,
But I’ve got silver in the stars,
And gold in the mornin’ sun.
Gold in the mornin’ sun.
Never gonna kiss the ruby red lips,
Of the prettiest girl in town.
Never gonna ask her if she’d marry me,
I know she’d turn me down.
‘Cause I’m just a country boy,
Money have I none,
But I’ve got silver in the stars,
And gold in the mornin’ sun.
Gold in the mornin’ sun.
I never could afford a store bought ring,
With a sparklin’ diamond stone.
All I could afford is a lovin’ heart,
The only one I own.
‘Cause I’m just a country boy,
Money have I none,
But I’ve got silver in the stars,
And gold in the mornin’ sun.
Gold in the mornin’ sun.