Black Boots, No Crown – Rob Matare | Blue Collar Country Song (Official Lyric Video)

Black Boots, No Crown by Rob Matare. Subscribe for a new song every day. Black Boots, No Crown by Rob Matare is a blue collar country song about integrity, hard work and refusing to sign your name to a lie. The title track of the album Black Boots No Crown, and a working man country song for anyone who has done the right thing at a cost. ▶ Stream Black Boots No Crown everywhere: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rob... It is quarter past six on a job site, rain is beating on the plywood, and the foreman presses a clipboard to the narrator's chest. Put your name where the checkmark is, he says, and do not make a sermon of the rest. Through the cross braces the narrator can see the new kid working down below. He will not call a bad frame safe, so the foreman tells him to pack his tools and go. The foreman can keep the hard hat and the foreman's pay; a title is not worth wearing if a man has to look down all day. He comes home with his lunchbox shut and lays the pink slip on the kitchen table beside his wife and their little boy's crayon drawing of a house. She reads it and tells him that the paycheck could have bought them supper, but it could never have bought him sleep. She would rather count their change with him than watch him sell what he should keep. In the bridge the story reaches back a generation. These were his father's boots, steel toes split and leather worn brown. His father never had his name in gold or wore a foreman's crown, but every man who ever worked beside him came and stood there in the rain to say that he had sent them home alive when the bosses rushed the frame. “A title ain't worth wearing if a man looks down all day.” The chorus is the stand itself: black boots, no crown, a clean conscience and red dust on his hands. You can take my title, but you cannot make me bow, and these hands will not sign your lie. WHAT THIS SONG IS ABOUT This visualizer is set on a farmhouse porch in the blue hour before rain, a man in a work jacket holding a pair of worn black boots while his wife stands behind him. It is a song about working class dignity, workplace safety and the kind of quiet courage that costs you something, and about the family and the father who make that courage possible. WHO IT IS FOR If you are searching for blue collar country songs, working man country songs, country songs about integrity, songs about doing the right thing, songs about fathers and sons, country songs for construction workers and tradesmen, working class country songs or songs about standing up for your values, this one is for you. Play it on the drive home from a hard shift, or send it to someone who stood up when it cost them. Have you ever lost something for doing the right thing? Tell me in the comments, and subscribe for more music from Rob Matare. ▶ Stream Black Boots No Crown everywhere: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/rob... ▶ Subscribe to Rob Matare:    / @robmatare   ▶ Full album playlist:    • Black Boots No Crown (Full Album) – Rob Ma...   CREDITS Produced by Rob Matare Label: EpicSound360 #CountryMusic #RobMatare #BlackBootsNoCrown #BlueCollar