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How Do You Do?
05:21
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My old chair it squeaks
My old heart it creaks
Right now I’m trying
Right now you’re lying
Right now I’m dying
My old brain it leaks
My old knees they break
Right now it’s inside
Soon it’ll be outside
I’m getting a new mind
Off to the races again
I see your two faces my friend
How do you live?
My two eyes they see
(Your light shining through)
My two ears they ear
(Your words ringing true)
I know it’s not easy
You can’t believe me
But one day it’ll be
Off to the races again
I see your two faces my friend
How do you live?
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2. |
Going Home
03:46
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I’m leaving
I’m going home today
I’m leaving
I’ve got nothing left to say
I let myself go crazy
I let my self get lost
I don’t want you back again
I’m sorry
I don’t say what I mean
I’m sorry
It isn’t what it seems
I’ll let myself forget
I’ll let myself move on
I don’t want you back again
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I was about going on eight years old or seven when we came here from Minnesota
It was in 1928 that we came to Michigan from Minnesota
Grandpa was a farmer
He graduated from the University of Minnesota Ag school and got his diploma in 1904
He worked with the Department of Interior
I never knew my Grandpa; he died before I was born
My dad felt obligated that he should go back to the farm and manage that farm
It was a big farm
Then following the war, farmers were urged to expand their growing, their productivity, so they mortgaged to get better, more equipment so they could grow more things, but Europe recovered quicker than people had anticipated
And in the Midwest in 1928, if they didn’t make their payments, why, they were foreclosed
Grandpa was a farmer
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4. |
Wells
02:23
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Well, I hope that you know
I don’t want to see you go
Well I hope that you know
I won’t tell you so
It’s over again
Wells, they sometimes run dry
Don’t it make you sad?
Wells, they sometimes run dry
This one’s going to last
It’s over again
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5. |
White Horse
04:27
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Where are you going to?
Where have you been?
I’m trying to find you
I’m trying to hold your hand
The tree it leans to the water
The plant it rises to the sun
I guess I have to try a little harder
I guess what’s right is not always what’s fun
Haven’t you learned all of that yet?
I did, but I always…
forget
When was the last time
that white horse was beaten?
You might be fine,
but he is bleeding
Haven’t you learned all of that yet?
How could I, it’s not in my…
head
Haven’t you learned all of that yet?
I did, but I always…
forget
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6. |
Dew Eyed
02:53
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Love was once a thing I only felt for you dear
But now it’s what I see all around
And I’m so glad that I had you dear
You loved me, but you wouldn’t let it show
I know you know; I know you know that I know
I should I should; I should I should let go
I do
My future’s never just what it would seem
My present’s never how I look back
My past it changes as much as I do
I wish I could remember everything
I know you know; I know you know that I know
I should I should; I should I should let go
I do
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We were married in west Texas in '43 in July of '43
And when I graduated and got commissioned as a pilot, and she was expecting for Sharon
And we came home on leave and I went back to Texas, and I instructed in C-47s
Your mother and I are sitting on the front porch, and your mother is busy crocheting another laprobe. There are two people in Grand Haven that don’t have laprobes that she’s made.
(Oh shut up)
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Evening Knowledge
04:55
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Hey I miss you all the way to death
Do you remember who I even am?
Hey it hasn’t been such a long time
Do you remember when you were mine?
Lately I’ve been a little tired
I don’t know when you got so quiet
Lately I’ve been a little down
I don’t know if that’d change if you were around
It couldn’t hurt
It wouldn’t hurt
Sometimes I think I see your face
It’s just a dream
And you walk by
And you walk by…
The moon moves the sea, it don’t move my heart
The stars have no say when we will finally part
The moon is blocked out even in the nighttime
The stars are hidden behind the clouds outside
It’s getting quite dark
Has it ever been so dark?
Sometimes I think I see your face
It’s just a dream
And you walk by
And you walk by…
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9. |
Grandpa's Apologia
04:46
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(What else? You know there’ve been so many things that’ve happened, that you often wonder, boy, why me?)
Harp in my hand I’m going
Up to the Lord I’m going
What do I have to show?
(Boy, why me?)
All of my life I’m begging
On the next life I’m betting
You think I’m such a fool
Do you know what’s good for you?
I am done hiding now
I want to be found
(Memories are a gift, and there are so many good things that have happened)
That old storm is passing
Lighting and thunder clapping
I sit and wait in my cave
(Memories are a gift)
Onto the mountain I’m walking
Letting my feet do the talking
The air is getting quite thin
It’s true, I don’t know where you’ve been
I am done hiding now
I want to be found
(But it isn’t something that’s easy to talk about, not for us anyway to verbalize it, nor for me in particular. Try to show it by our life and by our actions)
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