[00:00.00]I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (2005 Remaster) - Merle Haggard/The Strangers
[00:04.80]Written by：Merle Haggard
[00:09.61]Things I learned in a hobo jungle
[00:13.60]Were things they never taught me in a classroom
[00:20.71]Like where to find a handout
[00:24.26]While thumbing through Chicago in the afternoon
[00:30.84]Hey I'm not bragging or complaining
[00:33.31]And just talking to myself man to man
[00:40.57]This old mental fat I'm chewing didn't take a lot
[00:44.66]Of doing
[00:45.52]But I take a lot of pride in what I
[00:48.12]Am
[00:52.20]I guess I grew up a loner
[00:56.00]I don't remember ever having any folks around
[01:02.96]But I keep thumbing through the phone books
[01:06.93]And looking for my daddy's name in every town
[01:13.62]And I meet lots of friendly people
[01:16.11]That I always end up leaving on the lam
[01:22.96]Hey where I've been or where I'm going
[01:25.72]Didn't take a lot of knowing
[01:28.11]But I take a lot of pride in what I
[01:30.67]Am
[01:34.68]I never travel in a hurry
[01:38.45]Because I got nobody waiting for me anywhere
[01:45.47]Home is anywhere I'm living
[01:49.11]If it's sleeping on some vacant bench in city square
[01:55.92]Or if I'm working on some road gang
[01:58.77]Or just living off the fat of our great land
[02:05.34]I never been nobody's idol but at least I got
[02:09.49]A title
[02:10.53]And I take a lot of pride in what I
[02:13.17]Am
[02:17.18]I never been nobody's idol but at least I got
[02:21.30]A title
[02:22.30]And I take a lot of pride in what I
[02:24.96]Am
[02:29.51]I take a lot of pride in what I am
[02:36.60]I take a lot of pride in what I am