(Clay Davidson/Matt Hendrix)



I was born in a small town in the hills of Tennessee

Kentucky raised, just a country boy and that's all I'll ever be

My daddy ran a still house to keep us kids alive

Just doin' what he had to do after mama died

The same people that called him no good

Would 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



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 till you stand where I stand

I don't need you or anyone else to approve

Cause the blood in these veins is tried and true



I left home at sixteen with a guitar on my back

With everything I called my own I carried in a paper sack

Spent years of havin' nothin' and sleepin' in my car

I'd drive all day and play all night

In the honky tonks and bars



The same people that called me crazy

Said I'm too lazy to amount to anything

Are the first ones to the stage just beggin' for a little taste

Who say you 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 till you stand where I stand

I don't need you or anyone else to approve

Cause the blood in these veins is tried and true



The same people that called me crazy

Said I'm too lazy to amount to anything

Are the first ones to the stage just beggin' for a little taste

Who say you 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 till you stand where I stand

I don't need you or anyone else to approve

Cause the blood in these veins is tried and true



The blood in these veins is tried and true