Grandpa Was a Carpenter (LP版)

Grandpa Was A Carpenter (LP版) - John Prine (約翰·普林)

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

Grandpa was a carpenter 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 he take me with him too

Stained glass in every window hearing aids in every pew

Grandpa was a carpenter 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

Now my grandma was a teacher she went to school in bowling green

Traded in a milking cow for a singer sewing machine

Well she called her husband 'mister'

And walked real tall and pride

She used to buy me comic books after grandpa died

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