John Denver - Thank God I'm a Country Boy
Time: 2:12
And thank God you're a country boy"
Well, my daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
Taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle

pare; cut small bits or pare shavings from
Heard in 25 songs (34M+ combined views) — most famously in "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver.
Updated August 13, 2026
Time: 2:12
And thank God you're a country boy"
Well, my daddy taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
Taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle

Time: 1:04
Sneaking in licks like a tongue-slinger
I can ribbit and whittle your health away with every elemental
But you already lost half from this rock instrumental

Time: 0:59
And the grass is a little bit blue
Cuttin' wood for the whittle of it, out in the middle of the country
In a country house with you, you, ooh-ooh

Time: 1:32
from a long branch elbow
I'm gonna whittle you into kindlin'
Black Crow 16 shells from a thirty-ought-six

Time: 1:59
Thank God I'm a country boy
My daddy's taught me young how to hunt and how to whittle
He taught me how to work and play a tune on the fiddle

Time: 2:13
a little
lets whittle the way to the core now
ya packin' a Glock

Time: 1:25
My hatchet is so big, Compared to me I'm little
And if you send me wooden pics With my hatchet, I'll whittle
Don't push me, I'm too close to the edge

Time: 0:34
And soon the creatures of the forest called him "Whittlin' Man".
Yeah, he whittled all day and he whittled all night,
He whittled, whittled, whittled everything in sight,

Time: 1:19
Oh, you can shine me up
You can whittle me down
But, oh, what's underneath

Time: 0:15
Don't bargain at martyr parliament rallies
Where participants squeeze your last giggle then whittle sacrificial finalies
I can tie my new faces alone, save your knee deep offerings

Time: 2:50
Ord's on the guitar Ross on the fiddle
We come here to party and not spit and whittle
While the moon is shining bright

Time: 1:00
'Cause only simple men can see the logic in whatever
Smarter men can whittle down 'til you can fit it on a sticker
Get it stuck like mud and bugs to names that set the standard

Time: 0:53
it's kind of non-commital
it says come hither, baby, but then he's hard wood to whittle
it says it don't mean a thing, but still, somebody does

Time: 1:02
We have a chemistry, I'm aware
But I go there and whittle it down in the end
I'm the one you wanna move on from

Time: 2:06
Tim Finnegan rising in the bed
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes
T'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?"

Time: 2:36
And pass slowly (It's time for a change)
And whittle me down ('Cause things feel out of touch)
Then render me lonely (I'll watch you walk away again)

Time: 0:41
You'll be a pile of shavings when they put you in your grave
If you trim yourself to fit the world, you'll whittle yourself away
♪

Time: 0:50
Of this once-opulent atrium
Whittled down the poplar shafts
Where needed, gently bending flat

Time: 0:45
The stepping stone
To whittle away to get me home
Travel far to bed the floor

Time: 0:13
She knows I love her a lot not a little
I'm just a stick that she likes to whittle
I got a heart and she's in the middle of it

Time: 0:40
I I I I
I'd buckle up whittle down all the
Pals I make

Time: 2:49
I'll be a hobo's son surely all my days
Whittle out the hours with a memory for my brain
Carve the hand of a Sally dear hoping her to find

Time: 0:11
For once, devotion is enough
But the walk you whittle, another dream, another drink
Over in the basement, not an inch between

Time: 2:52
Beauty and the beastmode address this shit with elegance
Dark Magician Girl bout to whittle down your life points
I don't give a fuck about Brutus and his knife points

Time: 0:35
'Cause I'm tired of all these pilgrims, these puritans, these thieves
Of all these unbelievers who whittle love down at the knees
Let these swift roads destroy themselves
