Lyrics and translation Merle Haggard & The Strangers - I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am
Things
I
learned
in
a
hobo
jungle
Les
choses
que
j'ai
apprises
dans
une
jungle
de
clochards
Were
things
they
never
taught
me
in
a
classroom,
Sont
des
choses
qu'on
ne
m'a
jamais
apprises
en
classe,
Like
where
to
find
a
handout
Comme
où
trouver
une
aumône
While
thumbin'
through
Chicago
in
the
afternoon.
En
faisant
du
stop
à
Chicago
dans
l'après-midi.
Hey,
I'm
not
braggin'
or
complainin',
Hé,
je
ne
me
vante
pas
ni
ne
me
plains,
Just
talkin'
to
myself
man
to
man.
Je
parle
juste
à
moi-même,
homme
à
homme.
This
ole'
mental
fat
I'm
chewin'
didn't
take
alot
of
doin'.
Cette
vieille
graisse
mentale
que
je
mâche
n'a
pas
pris
beaucoup
de
temps.
But
I
take
alot
of
pride
in
what
I
am.
Mais
je
suis
fier
de
ce
que
je
suis.
I
guess
I
grew
up
a
loner,
Je
suppose
que
j'ai
grandi
en
solitaire,
I
don't
remember
ever
havin'
any
folks
around.
Je
ne
me
souviens
pas
avoir
eu
des
gens
autour
de
moi.
But
I
keep
thumbin'
through
the
phone
books,
Mais
je
continue
à
feuilleter
les
annuaires
téléphoniques,
And
lookin'
for
my
daddy's
name
in
every
town.
Et
à
chercher
le
nom
de
mon
père
dans
chaque
ville.
And
I
meet
lots
of
friendly
people,
Et
je
rencontre
beaucoup
de
gens
sympathiques,
That
I
always
end
up
leavin'
on
the
lam.
Que
je
finis
toujours
par
laisser
tomber.
Where
I've
been
or
where
I'm
goin'
Où
j'ai
été
ou
où
je
vais,
Didn't
take
alot
of
knowin',
Je
n'ai
pas
eu
besoin
de
beaucoup
de
savoir,
But
I
take
alot
of
pride
in
what
I
am.
Mais
je
suis
fier
de
ce
que
je
suis.
I
never
travel
in
a
hurry,
Je
ne
voyage
jamais
dans
la
précipitation,
'Cause
I
got
nobody
waitin'
for
me
anywhere.
Parce
que
je
n'ai
personne
qui
m'attend
nulle
part.
Home
is
anywhere
I'm
livin',
La
maison
est
partout
où
je
vis,
If
it's
sleepin'
on
some
vacant
bench
in
City
Square,
Si
je
dors
sur
un
banc
vide
de
la
place
de
la
ville,
Or
if
I'm
workin'
on
some
road
gang,
Ou
si
je
travaille
sur
un
chantier
routier,
Or
just
livin'
off
the
fat
of
our
great
land.
Ou
si
je
vis
simplement
de
la
graisse
de
notre
grand
pays.
I
never
been
nobody's
idol,
But
at
least
I
got
a
title,
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
l'idole
de
personne,
mais
au
moins
j'ai
un
titre,
And
I
take
alot
of
pride
in
what
I
am.
Et
je
suis
fier
de
ce
que
je
suis.
I
never
been
nobody's
idol,
But
at
least
I
got
a
title,
Je
n'ai
jamais
été
l'idole
de
personne,
mais
au
moins
j'ai
un
titre,
And
I
take
alot
of
pride
in
what
I
am.
Et
je
suis
fier
de
ce
que
je
suis.
I
take
alot
of
pride
in
what
I
am.
Je
suis
fier
de
ce
que
je
suis.
I
take
alot
of
pride
in
what
I
am...
Je
suis
fier
de
ce
que
je
suis...
Rate the translation
1
Stay a Little Longer
2 Living With the Shades Pulled Down
3 Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
4 Just Between the Two of Us
5 Trouble In Mind
6 The Bottle Let Me Down (Down Every Road Version)
7 Skid Row (Down Every Road Version)
8 Here In Frisco
9 Holding Things Together
10 Honky Tonk Night Time Man
11 Things Aren't Funny Anymore
12 Everybody's Had The Blues - Live Rehearsal
13 The Emptiest Arms in the World
14 If We Make It Through December
15 I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
16 It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
17 Kentucky Gambler
18 Grandma Harp
19 Someday We'll Look Back
20 Carolyn
21 Tulare Dust
22 The Farmer's Daughter
23 Right or Wrong (Down Every Road Version)
24 I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) (March 1970)
25 The Fightin' Side Of Me - December 1969
26 Irma Jackson
27 Running Kind
28 Huntsville
29 Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
30 Always Wanting You
31 It's All in the Movies
32 Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
33 Kern River
34 Someday When Things Are Good
35 That's The Way Love Goes
36 Pancho and Lefty
37 You Take Me For Granted
38 Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
39 Rainbow Stew
40 I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
41 Leonard
42 Misery And Gin
43 My Own Kind of Hat
44 Footlights
45 Red Bandana
46 It's Been a Great Afternoon
47 Ramblin' Fever
48 If We're Not Back in Love By Monday
49 What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana
50 I Never Go Around Mirrors
51 The Way It Was In '51
52 Someone Told My Story
53 I Can't Stop Loving You (Live)
54 In My Next Life
55 Mary's Mine
56 All of Me Belongs to You
57 House of Memories
58 White Line Fever (Down Every Road Version)
59 I Threw Away the Rose
60 The Fugitive
61 Branded Man
62 I'll Look Over You
63 Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
64 Whatever Happened to Me
65 (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
66 Sam Hill
67 Sing a Sad Song
68 High On a Hilltop
69 Somewhere Between
70 Today I Started Loving You Again
71 Sing Me Back Home
72 Silver Wings
73 Hungry Eyes
74 The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
75 It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
76 I Can't Hold Myself In Line
77 I'm Bringin' Home Good News
78 I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am
79 Seeing Eye Dog
80 The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
81 Workin' Man Blues
82 The Day the Rains Came
83 Teach Me to Forget
84 Mama Tried
85 I'll Always Know
86 Okie From Muskogee - Down Every Road Version
87 Go Home
88 Swinging Doors
89 I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
90 If I Had Left It Up to You
91 You Don't Even Try
92 You Don't Have Very Far to Go
93 California Cottonfields
94 Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make a Fool Out of Me)
95 Waitin' for a Train
96 California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)
97 I'm Looking For My Mind
98 In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
99 Is This the Beginning of the End?
2 Living With the Shades Pulled Down
3 Let's Chase Each Other Around The Room
4 Just Between the Two of Us
5 Trouble In Mind
6 The Bottle Let Me Down (Down Every Road Version)
7 Skid Row (Down Every Road Version)
8 Here In Frisco
9 Holding Things Together
10 Honky Tonk Night Time Man
11 Things Aren't Funny Anymore
12 Everybody's Had The Blues - Live Rehearsal
13 The Emptiest Arms in the World
14 If We Make It Through December
15 I Wonder If They Ever Think of Me
16 It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)
17 Kentucky Gambler
18 Grandma Harp
19 Someday We'll Look Back
20 Carolyn
21 Tulare Dust
22 The Farmer's Daughter
23 Right or Wrong (Down Every Road Version)
24 I'll Be a Hero (When I Strike) (March 1970)
25 The Fightin' Side Of Me - December 1969
26 Irma Jackson
27 Running Kind
28 Huntsville
29 Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)
30 Always Wanting You
31 It's All in the Movies
32 Twinkle Twinkle Lucky Star
33 Kern River
34 Someday When Things Are Good
35 That's The Way Love Goes
36 Pancho and Lefty
37 You Take Me For Granted
38 Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)
39 Rainbow Stew
40 I Think I'll Just Stay Here and Drink
41 Leonard
42 Misery And Gin
43 My Own Kind of Hat
44 Footlights
45 Red Bandana
46 It's Been a Great Afternoon
47 Ramblin' Fever
48 If We're Not Back in Love By Monday
49 What Have You Got Planned Tonight, Diana
50 I Never Go Around Mirrors
51 The Way It Was In '51
52 Someone Told My Story
53 I Can't Stop Loving You (Live)
54 In My Next Life
55 Mary's Mine
56 All of Me Belongs to You
57 House of Memories
58 White Line Fever (Down Every Road Version)
59 I Threw Away the Rose
60 The Fugitive
61 Branded Man
62 I'll Look Over You
63 Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive
64 Whatever Happened to Me
65 (My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers
66 Sam Hill
67 Sing a Sad Song
68 High On a Hilltop
69 Somewhere Between
70 Today I Started Loving You Again
71 Sing Me Back Home
72 Silver Wings
73 Hungry Eyes
74 The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde
75 It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him
76 I Can't Hold Myself In Line
77 I'm Bringin' Home Good News
78 I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am
79 Seeing Eye Dog
80 The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp
81 Workin' Man Blues
82 The Day the Rains Came
83 Teach Me to Forget
84 Mama Tried
85 I'll Always Know
86 Okie From Muskogee - Down Every Road Version
87 Go Home
88 Swinging Doors
89 I'm Gonna Break Every Heart I Can
90 If I Had Left It Up to You
91 You Don't Even Try
92 You Don't Have Very Far to Go
93 California Cottonfields
94 Jimmie Rodgers' Last Blue Yodel (The Women Make a Fool Out of Me)
95 Waitin' for a Train
96 California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)
97 I'm Looking For My Mind
98 In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
99 Is This the Beginning of the End?
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