White Man Singin' The Blues - Merle Haggard, The Strangers

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

From the things I’d been singin' about

Well, he liked how I played my old guitar

So he sit down beside me to sing.

And together we hummed out an old timey blues

Hmm, do dee dang

From the same side of the railroad tracks

Where people have nothin' to lose

I’m the son of a gambler who’s luck never came

A white man singin' the blues

Well, we 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 hummed right along

From the same side of the railroad tracks

Where people have nothin' to lose

I’m the son of a gambler who’s luck never came

A white man singin' the blues

From the same side of the railroad tracks

Where people have nothin' to lose

I’m the son of a gambler who’s luck never came

I’m a white man singin' the blues

Now the old man paid no mind to color

'Cause he knew that I’d been down and out

Old Joe said I was a soul brother

From the things I’d been singin' about