Charley Pride - It’s All Right lyrics

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