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   Guest_ | Oct 17, 1999 06:36am | #19

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   Grandpa Was a Carpenter
   © John Prine

   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 T.V.
   well, he'd drive to church on Sunday
   and take me with him too!
   stained glass in every window
   hearing aids in every pew.

   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.

   Chorus:

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   Guest_ | Oct 01, 1999 06:44pm | #1

   *"There's a hole in Daddy's arm,where all the money goes." - John Prine

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   Guest_ | Oct 02, 1999 10:33am | #2

   *Gee, jim, if you quoted the next line, you'd really be stirring the pot! A great song on a great album!Rich Beckman

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   Guest_ | Oct 03, 1999 06:43am | #3

   *Rollin my sweet babys arms.......gonna lay round the tracktill the mail train comes backrollin my sweet babys arms........

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   Guest_ | Oct 03, 1999 08:10am | #4

   *Please don't bury me down in that cold cold ground I'd ruther have em cut me up and pass me all around Give my heart to the junk man and kiss my *&& goodbye

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   Guest_ | Oct 04, 1999 08:47pm | #5

   *Dear Abby, Dear Abbey, well I never thought that me and my girlfriend would ever get caught.....

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   Guest_ | Oct 04, 1999 09:32pm | #6

   *If I ever see another salesman come a knockin on my door, I'm gonna pick up a rock and hit him on the head and knock him down on the floor. (approximate)

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   Airedale | Oct 06, 1999 09:48am | #7

   *I hate graveyards and old pawns shops, for they always bring me tears.It took me years to get those souviners, and I can't forgive what they took away from me.

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   Guest_ | Oct 06, 1999 10:45am | #8

   *We drove that car as far as we couldabandoned it out westwe split up one dark sad nightagreeing it was best

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   Guest_ | Oct 06, 1999 08:35pm | #9

   *Back to Prine> You know that old trees just grow stronger> And old rivers grow wilder everyday> Old people just grow lonesome> Waitin for someone to say > Hello in theresaddest song I've ever heard

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   Guest_ | Oct 06, 1999 11:07pm | #10

   *Patrick, man, I had forgotton that one. Made tears come to my eyes - just those few lines. - jb

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   Guest_ | Oct 07, 1999 01:09am | #11

   *Get your tongue outta my mouth, cause I'm kissing you goodbye.

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   Guest_ | Oct 07, 1999 07:02am | #12

   *Patrick,Check out Marie by Townes Van Zandt. On the album No Deeper Blue.Dan

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    Guest_ | Oct 07, 1999 09:38am | #13

    *Blow up Your TV Throw away Your paper Move to the country Build You a home

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    Guest_ | Oct 08, 1999 10:15pm | #14

    *Breaking the speed of the sound of loneliness....and of course:I am an old woman, named after my mother, my old man is another child that's grown old. If dreams were lightning, and thunder was desire, this old house would have burnt down a long time ago. I feel like I could go on forever (that's my line, not one of his)nostalgiacly, David

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    Guest_ | Oct 11, 1999 12:02am | #15

    *Damn, my thoughts were still hardFrom the ride on the sofa On the night she was over In my back yard.From "Down By the Side of the Road"John Prine

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    Guest_ | Oct 11, 1999 12:31am | #16

    *Here's one...You may see me tonight with an illegal smileThey don't cost very much, but they last a long whileWon't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyoneI'm just trying to have me some fun (hot dog fun, my sister's a nun)Or...Well daddy won't you take me back to Mulenberg CountyDown by the green river where paradise layI'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin'Mr. Peabody's coal trains have hauled it awayJames DuHamel

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    Guest_ | Oct 11, 1999 04:03am | #17

    *Hey James, I've got a picture of my dad me standing on the River Queen, the "Worlds Largest Shovel" with Peabody Coal Company written on it. I was about 2 when we passed through there on our way home. I remembed the picture when I heard the song a few yrs later.

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    Guest_ | Oct 15, 1999 05:46am | #18

    *God save her plese, she's nailed her knees To some drug store parking lotHey Mr. Brown, turn the volume down,I believe this POST is shot.Come back to us Barbrah Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard.

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   Rod_Bishop | Oct 17, 1999 06:36am | #20

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   We'll all be driving rocket ships and standin' in soup lines

   John Prines is the best