Couldn\'t tell my teacher my last name when I was in grade school
Stuttered when I talked and everybody laughed at me
I was a boy from across the tracks
I wore hand-me-downs on my back
But I swore that I\'d never let the bitters get the best of me

Fell in love with a pretty little girl when I was older
And like a fool, I figured there was something I could make of me
But it wasn\'t in the cards \'cause her daddy was rich
And it was commonly plain to see
No matter what I did she would never take a likin\' to me

But it\'s all right, it\'s all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it\'s all right with me
It\'s all right, it\'s all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it\'s all right with me

If I\'m lucky I still got a few more years of livin\'
And lady luck\'s never been a real good friend to me
I never asked a favour of a man in my life
But the preacher I\'m gonna see
And tell him when I die say these words over me

Here lies a man who never asked the world for nothin\'
He laboured in the sun and slept in the shade of a tree
His hands was calloused but his heart was warm
For his mind was pure and free
The good Lord knows that\'s the way a man\'s got to be

It\'s all right, it\'s all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it\'s all right with me
But it\'s all right, it\'s all right
I come up the hard way and fought a good fight
And it\'s all right with me
It\'s all right, it\'s all right