Workin' Man Blues" is Haggard's tribute to a center gathering of his fans: The American blue-nabbed working man. Upheld by a solid electric guitar beat that exemplified Haggard's mark Bakersfield Sound, he fills the part of one of those specialists communicating pride in qualities, for example, diligent work and relinquish, notwithstanding the subsequent exhaustion and the anxiety of raising an expansive gang. He confesses to unwinding amid the off-working hours ("I drink my brew in a bar, sing a tad bit of these workin' man's soul.") and promises that as a consequence of keeping his qualities, he will never need to go on welfare ("... cause I'll be working, long as my two hands are fit to use.").