A Ragged Jacket - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
A RAGGED JACKET. 
Although I am but a working man, I live by honest labor, I always do the best I can to assist a needy neighbor; Content in health, is all my wealth, with honesty to back it, My motives pure, although I'm poor, I respect a ragged jacket. 
Let people say whate'er they may of broadcloth and who wears it, It's not the coat that makes the man, but the deeds through life that bears it; So always help a fellow man, if assistance he should lack it. Do him all the good you can, though he wears a ragged jacket. 
All men were equally born at first, through this and every nation, The rich among the poor would be, but, for wealth and education; And when we're laid beneath the sod, with a hundred years to back it, Who can tell which were the bones that wore the ragged jacket.