song profile

Long Line of Blue Collar


My Grandpa worked for the TVA he strung those power lines
His brother moved out to West Virginia and worked down in those mines
My aunt Gurdie she put thirty years in at the mill
And if they hadn’t of forced her to retire I swear she’d be there still


(chorus)
See I come from a long line of blue collar passed down through the years
In the factories and the fields they shed their blood their sweat their tears
They built the bridges and dug the ditches and made things out of wood
I come from a long line of blue collar I wouldn’t change it if I could


You could see thirty years of factory work in my daddy’s callas hands
My uncle Bob he worked his farm up in that dairy land
As for me I ride this steel horse all across the USA
And I meet all kinds of people who like me who are proud to say


We got beautician and electricians and guys who work on cars
Blue collar isn’t what we do it’s who we are