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 The things I been singin' about He liked how I played my old guitar He'd sit down beside me to sing Together we hummed out an old timy blues Oh, we sing aside a railroad track For people have nothing to lose I'm a son of a gambler who's luck never came And a white man singin' the blues We both done a heap of hard livin' And hard to describing in a song But the blues was one thing we both understood And the old man hummed right along Oh, we sing aside a railroad track For people have nothing to lose I'm a son of a gambler who's luck never came And a white man singin' the blues