I Take A Lot Of Pride In What I Am

Things I learned in hobo jungle

Were things they never taught me in a class room

Like where to find a hand out

While bumming through Chicago in the afternoon

I’m just talking to myself man to man

This ole mental fat I’m chewing didn’t take a lotta doing

But I take a lot of pride in what I am

I guess I grew up a loner

I don’t remember ever having any folks around

But I keep thumbing through the phone books

And looking for my daddy’s name in every town

That I always wind up leaving on the lam

Hey where I’ve been or where I’m going didn’t take a lotta knowing

But I take a lot of pride in what I am

I never travel in a hurry

Because I got nobody waiting for me anywhere

Home is anywhere I’m living

If it’s sleeping on some vacant bench in City Square

Or just living off the fat of our great land

I never been nobody’s idol but at least I got a title

And I take a lot of pride in what I am

I never been nobody’s idol but at least I got a title

And I take a lot of pride in what I am