My mother was just 21 All alone with a son of gun she roamed Spent some nights sleeping in our car Cheap hotels and seedy bars As it came to pass so was my road She's a good hearted woman With a heart of gold that always understands That good hearted woman Is making life the best way she can My granddaddy said when I was 9 "Boy, I raised you on that the Southern pride and so" Taught me how to fish and how to fight When I was wrong and what was right But the greatest story that he ever told Was of a good hearted woman With a heart of gold that always understands That good hearted woman Is making life the best way she can Pretty wife and fancy cars I've paid my dues and got some scars to say There ain't a thing that I regret And I hope to laugh at all of this When I'm sitting on my front porch old and gray Oh, yeah With my good hearted woman With a heart of gold that always understands That good hearted woman Is making life the best way she can That good hearted woman Sure loves a hard headed man