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Dexter Roberts’ cover of “Muckalee Creek Water” was the only American Idol song not to chart on iTunes this week.

But don’t expect the country boy from Alabama to express any remorse over deciding to sing the Luke Bryan song the week he was eliminated from the show.

Dexter Roberts is mobbed by his American Idol friends, including Alex Preston, Sam Woolf and Jess Meuse, after his elimination. (FOX Photo)

After all, the song suggestion came from fellow contestant and Alabamian C.J. Harris, a friend of Dexter’s even before the show.

“I was so pumped up about it,” Dexter said during his Friday exit interview with the media. “I sing it all the time in shower. I think C.J. was tired hearing it and just wanted me to get it out of my system by singing it on stage.

“As soon as I saw it on list, I didn’t look at any other song.”

Still, the performance drew mixed reviews from the Idol judges.

And when Thursday’s results show ended with Jess Meuse and Dexter standing in danger of elimination … well, it was Dexter who wound up singing a farewell song, “Lucky Man.”

That, too, was an appropriate choice, because Dexter says he never expected to make it so far on the show.

Dexter Harris performs his farewell song on American Idol. (FOX Photo)

Then, Dexter says, he’ll be off to Nashville, trying his best of “launch a big album” in the mold of Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Eric Church and Craig Morgan.

When he was playing gigs back home at bars, weddings or wherever, Dexter says his buddies would encourage him to try out for Idol.

“I didn’t ever think I was good enough,” he admitted. “I just wanted to audition and see if it worked. Sure enough, it did.”

He also plans to spend some time enjoying country life back home in Alabama sometime in the near future.

Los Angeles, he says, provided a bit of a culture shock for a guy who worked as a farmhand and spent time training dogs to hunt ducks before landing on Idol.

“You can’t hunt out here,” he says. “And the only grass I’ve seen is a little bit between the concrete. I joked about getting a tipi, going out in the woods and staying for a few months when I get home.”