grandaddy

wish i could've known you now
'cause i might've understood
the way you saw the world
and always tried to do the best you could

i wonder if you got that old time feelin'
deep in your chest like it is in mine
that made you ramble around
this 'ol mason-dixon land

and i think i'd have done the same
when the big one came round
fight for my country with a flute in my hand
proud as ever in the navy band stand

when you made my daddy
you made me too and the lord made us three
for to do the best we can
you always did and its
what made you a man

i choked back tears
when they laid you in the ground
stars and stripes draped across
that heartwood pine
six feet under where im standin now
with my grandaddy on my mind