Jamey Johnson - In Color



I said, Grandpa what’s this picture here

It’s all black and white and ain’t real clear

Is that you he said, yeah I was eleven



Times were tough back in thirty-five

That’s me and Uncle Joe just tryin’ to survive

A cotton farm in the Great Depression



And if it looks like we were scared to death

Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other

You should have seen it in color



This one here was taken overseas

In the middle of hell in nineteen forty-three

In the winter time you can almost see my breath



That was my tail gunner ole’ Johnny McGee

He was a high school teacher from New Orleans

And he had my back right through the day we left



And if it looks like we were scared to death

Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other

You should have seen it in color



A picture’s worth a thousa