I Love This (Trailer) Park

 This is my version of Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar:


We got dumpsters, we got motherf*****s

Good ol’ boys and fronters

We got Dollar General and A Convenience Store

The Boat Bar and The (First) Turn

All walking distance

So you don’t need a car

You can get drunk just right where you are

Ooh ooh oh I love this park

We got night owls, we got fishermen,

Three docks and one fire pit

We get hurricanes

And we don’t give a shit

The cops come by for welfare checks

And the Mexican drives his white van in the dark

Ooh ooh oh I love this park

It’s in my kind of state (Florida)

Living in a real house would be such a waste

It’s not too hard

To fall from grace 

You can stay inside and hide 

but it won’t save you face

Ooh ooh oh I love this park

I’ve seen possums, I’ve seen raccoons

Like Forest Gump said

“My mama just chase em off with a broom”

But we give em food

We got stray cats by the dozens 

Fighting and humping each other

And we got ladies, they’re real nice

They drink Natural and Bud Ice

And the cops don’t need GPS

Cause they know right where we are

Ooh ooh oh I love this park.

I like my coffee strong

And I like my roommate (from Wisconsin)

We like to walk the trash to the dumpster 

every now and then

With a cigarette dangling from our lips

Don’t judge a book

By his trailer park

Ooh ooh oh I love this song.



*This is all true, btw






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