Merle Haggard — White Man Singin’ the Blues

[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 The things I'd been singing about He liked how I played my old guitar And he sat by beside me to sing Together we hummed out an old-timey blues Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm [Chorus] On 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 2] We both done a heap of hard living And hard to describe in a song But the blues was one thing we both understood And the old man hummed right along [Chorus] On 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