Well, I was driving around in my old pickup truck Down a road that didn't used to be paved Passing all the houses that was going up And all the farms that couldn't be saved A Haggard song came on the radio and Put a big smile on my face Made me think of something that sounded like something My grandpa would probably say Let a boy be a boy Let a girl be a girl Let a nut be a nut Let a squirrel be a squirrel Yeah, some things don't need to change In this ever-changing world Let rock and roll be rock and roll Let Merle be Merle ♪ Well, over yonder used to be the field Where we'd sit and drink our beer I wonder what they did with all that fence That couldn't keep us out of there Me and old Nancy, we'd get all handsy To "Twinkle,Twinkle Lucky Star" There's more things in the world that ain't changing Than there are things that are Let a boy be a boy Let a girl be a girl Let a nut be a nut Let a squirrel be a squirrel Yeah, some things don't need to change In this ever-changing world Let rock and roll be rock and roll Let Merle be Merle ♪ Let the grass be green Let the sky be blue Honky-tonk on a Saturday night A nap on Sunday afternoon Some things don't need to change In this ever-changing world Let rock and roll be rock and roll Let Merle be Merle Let rock and roll be rock and roll Let Merle be Merle