"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.").
"Workin' Man Blues" was a track on Haggard's 1969 collection A Portrait of Merle Haggard. Music pundit Mark Deming noticed that the tune was among three of Haggard's finest melodies to show up on the collection; "Silver Wings" and "Hungry Eyes" were the other two. "(M)ost blue grass craftsmen would be glad to cut three tunes this solid over the span of their profession, let alone as a component of one of six collections Hag would discharge in 1969," composed Deming.
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