[ti:I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Merle Haggard] [al:Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am (2005 Remaster) - Merle Haggard/The Strangers [00:04.80]Written by：Merle Haggard [00:09.61]Things I learned in a hobo jungle [00:13.60]Were things they never taught me in a classroom [00:20.71]Like where to find a handout [00:24.26]While thumbing through Chicago in the afternoon [00:30.84]Hey I'm not bragging or complaining [00:33.31]And just talking to myself man to man [00:40.57]This old mental fat I'm chewing didn't take a lot [00:44.66]Of doing [00:45.52]But I take a lot of pride in what I [00:48.12]Am [00:52.20]I guess I grew up a loner [00:56.00]I don't remember ever having any folks around [01:02.96]But I keep thumbing through the phone books [01:06.93]And looking for my daddy's name in every town [01:13.62]And I meet lots of friendly people [01:16.11]That I always end up leaving on the lam [01:22.96]Hey where I've been or where I'm going [01:25.72]Didn't take a lot of knowing [01:28.11]But I take a lot of pride in what I [01:30.67]Am [01:34.68]I never travel in a hurry [01:38.45]Because I got nobody waiting for me anywhere [01:45.47]Home is anywhere I'm living [01:49.11]If it's sleeping on some vacant bench in city square [01:55.92]Or if I'm working on some road gang [01:58.77]Or just living off the fat of our great land [02:05.34]I never been nobody's idol but at least I got [02:09.49]A title [02:10.53]And I take a lot of pride in what I [02:13.17]Am [02:17.18]I never been nobody's idol but at least I got [02:21.30]A title [02:22.30]And I take a lot of pride in what I [02:24.96]Am [02:29.51]I take a lot of pride in what I am [02:36.60]I take a lot of pride in what I am