My mother was just 21, all alone with a son of gun she roamed 

Spent some nights sleeping in our car, cheap hotels and seedy bars 

As it came to pass so was my road 

She's a good-hearted woman with a heart of gold that always understands 

That good hearted woman is making life the best way she can 



My grandaddy said when I was 9, boy I raised you on that the Southern pride and so 

Taught me how to fish and how to fight, when I was wrong and what was right 

But the greatest story that he ever told 

Was of a good-hearted woman with a heart of gold that always understands 

That good hearted woman is making life the best way she can 



Pretty wife and fancy cars, I've paid my dues and got some scars to say 

There ain't a thing that I regret and I hope to laugh at all of this 

When I'm sitting on my front porch old and gray 

With my good-hearted woman with a heart of gold that always understands 

My good hearted woman is making life the best way she can 

My good hearted woman sure loves a hard-headed man