A song request from my 8 year-old in honor of Labor Day

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

my 8 year old asked to sing it to her at bedtime tonight... "just for the working people, dad"

Grandpa wore his suit to dinner
Nearly every day
No particular reason
He just dressed that way
Brown necktie and a matching vest
And both his wingtip shoes
He built a closet on our back porch
And put a penny in a burned out fuse.

Chorus:
Grandpa was a carpenter
He built houses stores and banks
Chain smoked Camel cigarettes
And hammered nails in planks
He was level on the level
And shaved even every door
And voted for Eisenhower
'Cause Lincoln won the war.

Well, he used to sing me
"Blood on the Saddle"
And rock me on his knee
And let me listen to radio
Before we got TV
Well, he'd drive to church on Sunday
And take me with him too!
Stained glass in every window
Hearing aids in every pew.

Repeat Chorus:

Now my grandma was a teacher
Went to school in Bowling Green
Traded in a milking cow
For a Singer sewing machine
She called her husband "Mister"
And walked real tall and pride
And used to buy me comic books
After grandpa died.

Repeat Chorus:

[cherryperry]

1. eyes tearing up

You are a good daddy!


:thumbsup: :loveya:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. I love that song..even though neither of my grandfathers were

technically carpenters, they were very handy and grew up on farms and could do anything.
one was a machinist, the other a heavy equipment operator

and that song reminds me of both of them

[mac56]

2. Great song, great album -

Great singer -

(John Prine's "Sweet Revenge", by the way) -

And you are a good dad.