Just ‘cause I’m not educated and don’t lean hard on my degree

Don’t have a mouth that’s full of plums, and I don’t expect a legacy

I haven’t got a high diploma, nor strings of grades that qualify

My education was life’s journey, but it’s not enough to mollify...

...those hardened snobs who stand aloof and call me unacceptable

Who tell me that I don’t fit in, that I’ve failed at ‘respectable’

I may not have their high-brow views. Nor is my mind packed full of stuff...

...that comes from someone else’s books. It doesn’t mean I’m full of fluff

And just because they’re highly rated, whilst I must learn things as I go

And just because I’m not an expert, robbing folk, just ‘cause I know

It doesn’t mean I’m dull and stupid. It doesn’t mean I’m valued less

When common sense becomes essential, they’re quick to call my worthiness

Yes, there they are, to plead and beg, persuade me to their tragic cause

My helping hand, a weight in gold, is wanted then - and just because...

...my journey’s been a wealth of learning useful things for every day

Like how to get round life’s dilemmas, how to find a better way

So all in all, I’m just as clever, just as smart as all of them

‘cause they can’t do what I do, see - but what they see, they fast condemn

Write off as brainless foolery. Discount its use ...until next time

...they need a hand to help them out - ‘til then, I’ll not be worth a dime

They gossip, when they don’t ignore me, shun me and avoid my eye

But sure enough, when trouble strikes, I’m the one they’ll want come by

Build it, fix it, make it right, in oh so many countless ways

Never do they stop to think of how I spend my lonely days

But for all the pain their manner causes, all that looking down their nose

It’s mine to be the bigger man – forgive them, what their faults disclose.