Leonard Calhoun

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[Verse 1]
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Hard workin', hard hands
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Sweatin' like the devil with my farmer's tan
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My grandfather said Chop that wood
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Don't cuss at your mama, boy you got to be good
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Life goes by fast take it slow
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One day you're young and the next day you're old
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He used to tell me all this at our fishin' hole
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I used to carry all his tackle and his fishin' pole

[Chorus 2x]
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I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me
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When I was just a boy I'd sit on his knee
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He said Son let me tell you about
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The south and how it goes around here

[Verse]
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My daddy wasn't there but the old man was
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He taught me how to fish, he taught me to hunt
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And if I got bored he said whittle some wood
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Or go take that ol' dog go get lost in the woods
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I stay up all night and just sit on the porch
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He used to tell me stories about when he was a boy
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He grew up down the hollar at the end of Lick Fork
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In a little old cabin and they were so poor
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He started workin' at the age of 10
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He left school and never went back again
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I'll tell ya, old boy could swing a hammer and an axe
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And when times get tough, you'd get the shirt off his back

[Chorus 2x]
[Verse]
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I'm older, and he's gone now
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But I never forgot what we talked about
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My grandfather told me stand up proud
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Don't you ever start a fight, but don't ever back down
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No, no, and I miss him so
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It tears up my heart, it rips my soul
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Now looking down the ridge where we used to go
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I can still hear his voice and I know he knows

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