Blue Collar And A Purple Heart

Tobacco pouch, faded flannel
8-point mount hanging on the wood panel
Folgers black in an old green lazy boy chair
Your truck breaks down? He'll get it runnin'
Nearly shot down, right door gunnin'
On a Black Hawk chopper over Mekong Delta air
Came home from the jungle with a limp, made a brand-new start

Hard work, worry and war
Ain't scared of nothing cause he walks with the lord
The kinda common sense ain't common no more
Lives the kinda life makes a hell of a story
I've got a lot to learn
Bout life and love and the money we earn
Lucky for me I got him to turn to
A living, breathing landmark
Oh, blue collar and a purple heart

Gloria June, that's his misses
He does the tune-ups, she runs the business
In a pink pantsuit and her gray-streak bouffant hair
He don't clean, she don't cook
Theirs ain't a story from a fairytale book
But what they got is real as it is rare
They still reach for each other every night when the lights
Go dark

Hard work, worry and war
Ain't scared of nothing cause they walk with the lord
The kinda common sense ain't common no more
Lives the kinda life makes a hell of a story
I've got a lot to learn
Bout life and love and the money we earn
Lucky for me I got them to turn to
A living, breathing landmark
Oh, blue collar and a purple heart

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I grew up their grandkid
Took to heart everything they did
If you ever want to know what the secret is

Hard work, worry and war
Ain't scared of nothing cause they walk with the lord
The kinda common sense ain't common no more
Live the kinda life makes a hell of a story
I've got a lot to learn
Bout life and love and the money we earn
Lucky for me I got them to turn to
A living, breathing landmarks
Oh, blue collar and a purple heart

Blue collar and a purple heart

Tobacco pouch faded flannel
8-point mount hanging on the wood panel