White Man Singin' The Blues

(Merle Haggard)



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

The things I been singin' about.



He liked like I played my old guitar

He sat by beside me the same

Together we hung out an old timy blues

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.



Oh, we sing aside a railroad track

For people have nothing to lose

I'm a son of a gambler who's luck never came

And a white man singin' the blues.



We both done a heap of hard livin'

And hard to discribing the song

But the blues was one thing we both understood

And the old man hummed right along.



Oh, we sing aside a railroad track

For people have nothing to lose

I'm a son of a gambler who's luck never came

And a white man singin' the blues...