It's All Right

Couldn't tell my teacher my last name when I was in grade school

Stuttered when I talked and everybody laughed at me

I was a boy from across the tracks

I wore hand-me-downs on my back

But I swore that I'd never let the bitters get the best of me

Fell in love with a pretty little girl when I was older

And like a fool, I figured there was something I could make of me

But it wasn't in the cards 'cause her daddy was rich

And it was commonly plain to see

No matter what I did she would never take a likin' to me

But it's all right, it's all right

I come up the hard way and fought a good fight

And it's all right with me

It's all right, it's all right

I come up the hard way and fought a good fight

And it's all right with me

If I'm lucky I still got a few more years of livin'

And lady luck's never been a real good friend to me

I never asked a favour of a man in my life

But the preacher I'm gonna see

And tell him when I die say these words over me

Here lies a man who never asked the world for nothin'

He laboured in the sun and slept in the shade of a tree

His hands was calloused but his heart was warm

For his mind was pure and free

The good Lord knows that's the way a man's got to be

It's all right, it's all right

I come up the hard way and fought a good fight

And it's all right with me

But it's all right, it's all right

I come up the hard way and fought a good fight

And it's all right with me

It's all right, it's all right