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 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’ve 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 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