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