Merle Haggard - I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am (24-Bit Remastered 05) Lyrics

Lyrics I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am (24-Bit Remastered 05) - Merle Haggard



Things I learned in a hobo jungle
Were things they never taught me in a classroom,
Like where to find a handout
While thumbin' through Chicago in the afternoon.
Hey, I'm not braggin' or complainin',
Just talkin' to myself man to man.
This ole' mental fat I'm chewin' didn't take alot of doin'.
But I take alot of pride in what I am.
I guess I grew up a loner,
I don't remember ever havin' any folks around.
But I keep thumbin' through the phone books,
And lookin' for my daddy's name in every town.
And I meet lots of friendly people,
That I always end up leavin' on the lam.
Where I've been or where I'm goin'
Didn't take alot of knowin',
But I take alot of pride in what I am.
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I never travel in a hurry,
'Cause I got nobody waitin' for me anywhere.
Home is anywhere I'm livin',
If it's sleepin' on some vacant bench in City Square,
Or if I'm workin' on some road gang,
Or just livin' off the fat of our great land.
I never been nobody's idol, But at least I got a title,
And I take alot of pride in what I am.
I never been nobody's idol, But at least I got a title,
And I take alot of pride in what I am.
I take alot of pride in what I am.
I take alot of pride in what I am...



Writer(s): Merle Haggard


Merle Haggard - Mama Tried / Pride In What I Am
Album Mama Tried / Pride In What I Am
date of release
21-02-2006

1 Run 'Em Off (24-Bit Remastered 05)
2 Mama Tried (24-Bit Remastered 05)
3 Green Green Grass of Home (24-Bit Remastered 05)
4 Little Ole Wine Drinker Me (24-Bit Remastered 05)
5 In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) [24-Bit Remastered 05]
6 I Could Have Gone Right (24-Bit Remastered 05)
7 I'll Always Know (24-Bit Remastered 05)
8 The Sunny Side of My Life (24-Bit Remastered 05)
9 Teach Me to Forget (24-Bit Remastered 05)
10 Folsom Prison Blues (24-Bit Remastered 05)
11 You'll Never Love Me Now (24-Bit Remastered 05)
12 Too Many Bridges to Cross Over (24-Bit Remastered 05)
13 I'm Looking For My Mind
14 You're Not Home Yet
15 I Take a Lot of Pride In What I Am (24-Bit Remastered 05)
16 Who'll Buy the Wine (24-Bit Remastered 05)
17 The Day the Rains Came (24-Bit Remastered 05)
18 It Meant Goodbye to Me When You Said Hello to Him (24-Bit Remastered 05)
19 I Can't Hold Myself In Line (24-Bit Remastered 05)
20 I'm Bringin' Home Good News (24-Bit Remastered 05)
21 Keep Me from Cryin' Today (24-Bit Remastered 05)
22 I Just Want to Look At You One More Time (24-Bit Remastered 05)
23 Somewhere On Skid Row (24-Bit Remastered 05)
24 I'm Free (24-Bit Remastered 05)
25 California Blues (Blue Yodel #4) [24-Bit Remastered 05]
26 I Think We're Livin' In the Good Old Days (24-Bit Remastered 05)
27 California On My Mind
28 White Line Fever
29 Streets of Berlin




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