The old man paid no mind to color   'Cause he knew that I'd been down and out   Old Joe said that I was a soul brother   From the things I'd been singin' about      Well, he liked how I played my old guitar   So he sit down beside me to sing.   And together we hummed out an old timey blues   Hmm, do dee dang      From the same side of the railroad tracks   Where people have nothin' to lose   I'm the son of a gambler who's luck never came   A white man singin' the blues      Well, we both done a heap of hard-livin   And hard to describe in a song   But the blues was one thing we both understood   And the old man hummed right along      From the same side of the railroad tracks   Where people have nothin' to lose   I'm the son of a gambler who's luck never came   A white man singin' the blues      From the same side of the railroad tracks   Where people have nothin' to lose   I'm the son of a gambler who's luck never came   I'm a white man singin' the blues      Now the old man paid no mind to color   'Cause he knew that I'd been down and out   Old Joe said I was a soul brother   From the things I'd been singin' about