MONTGOMERY GENTRY - Tried And True lyrics

I was born in a small town

In the hills of Tennessee

Kentucky raised just a country boy

That?s all I?ll ever be

Daddy ran a steel house

To keep us kids alive

Just doin? what he had to do after momma died

Same people that called him no good

Meet him in the back woods for a little taste

He said I may take your money

But don?t put yourself above me

Don?t cut me down as you walk away

?Cuz you don?t know me, you don?t know who I am

You don?t know the pain that I?ve been through

So don?t judge me until you stand where I stand

I don?t need you or anyone else to approve

?Cuz the blood in these veins is tried and true

I left home at 16 with a guitar on my back

Everything I called my own I carried in a paper sack

Spent years of havin? nothin? sleepin? in my car

I?d drive all day and play all night in the honky tonks and bars

Same people that called me crazy

Said that I?m too lazy to amount to anything

Are the first ones to the stage

Just beggin for a little taste

Say they knew me when nobody knew my name

But you don?t know me, you don?t know who I am

You don?t know the pain that I?ve been through

So don?t judge me until you stand where I stand

I don?t need you or anyone else to approve

Cuz the blood in these veins is tried and true

Same people that called me crazy

Said that I?m too lazy to amount to anything

Are the first ones to the stage

Just beggin for a little taste

Say they knew me when nobody knew my name

But you don?t know me, you don?t know who I am

You don?t know the pain that I?ve been through

So don?t judge me until you stand where I stand

I don?t need you or anyone else to approve

Cuz the blood in these veins is tried and true

Oh the blood in these veins is tried and true.