White Man Singing The Blues
Merle Haggard
[Intro] [Verse 1] The old man paid no mind to color Cause he knew that I’d been down and out Old Joe said that I was a soul brother And things I’d been singin’ about [Verse 2] Well he liked how I played my old guitar So he sit down beside me to sing Together we hummed out an old timey blues Hmm hmm dudely dang [Chorus] From the same side of the railroad track Where people have nothing to lose I’m the son of a gambler who’s luck never came And a white man singin’ the blues [Verse 3] Well we’ve both done a heap of hard livin’ And hard to describe in a song But the blues was one thing we both understood And the old man that hummed right along [Chorus] From the same side of the railroad track Where people have nothing to lose I’m the son of a gambler who’s luck never came And a white man singin’ the blues
