Jamey Johnson In Color

In Color I said Grandpa what s this picture here It s all black and white, and it ain t real clear Is that you there, he said yeah, I was eleven And times were tough, back in thirtyfive 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 ve seen it in color This one here was taken overseas In the middle of hell, in nineteen fortythree 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 If it looks like we were scared to death Like a couple of kids just trying to save each other You should ve seen it in color A picture s worth a thousand words But you can t see what those shades of gray keep covered You