《Grandpa Was a Carpenter(LP版)》歌词

[00:00:00] Grandpa Was A Carpenter (爷爷是个木匠) (LP版) - John Prine

[00:00:01] Grandpa wore his suit to dinner nearly every day

[00:00:06] No particular reason he just dressed that way

[00:00:11] Brown necktie and a matching vest and both his wingtip shoes

[00:00:15] He built a closet on our back porch

[00:00:17] And put a penny in a burned out fuse

[00:00:20] Grandpa was a carpenter built houses stores and banks

[00:00:25] Chain smoked camel cigarettes and hammered nails in planks

[00:00:29] He was level on the level and shaved even every door

[00:00:34] And voted for Eisenhower 'cause Lincoln won the war

[00:00:45] Well he used to sing me 'blood on the saddle'

[00:00:47] And rock me on his knee

[00:00:50] And let me listen to radio before we got TV

[00:00:54] Well he'd drive to church on Sunday and he take me with him too

[00:00:59] Stained glass in every window hearing aids in every pew

[00:01:04] Grandpa was a carpenter built houses stores and banks

[00:01:08] Chain smoked camel cigarettes and hammered nails in planks

[00:01:13] He was level on the level and shaved even every door

[00:01:18] And voted for Eisenhower 'cause Lincoln won the war

[00:01:28] Now my grandma was a teacher she went to school in bowling green

[00:01:33] Traded in a milking cow for a singer sewing machine

[00:01:38] Well she called her husband 'mister'

[00:01:40] And walked real tall and pride

[00:01:43] She used to buy me comic books after grandpa died

[00:01:47] Grandpa was a carpenter he built houses stores and banks

[00:01:52] Chain smoked camel cigarettes and hammered nails in planks

[00:01:57] He was level on the level and shaved even every door

[00:02:01] And voted for Eisenhower 'cause Lincoln won the war