Tried And True Lyrics

Tried And True lyrics

(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