I miss my old man tonight
And I wish he was here with me
With his corny jokes and his cheap cigars
He could look you in the eye and sell you
a car
That's not an easy thing to do
But no one ever knew a more charming creature
on this earth than my old man.
He was a pilot in the big war
In the
U .S.
Army
Air
Corps
In a
C -47 with a heavy load
Full of combat cargo for the
Burma
Road
And af ter they dropped the bomb,
he came home and married
Mom.
And not long after that,
he was my old man.
And oh, the fights we had
When my brother and I got him mad
He'd get all boiled up and
he'd start to shout
And I knew what was coming,
so I tuned him
out and now the old man's gone and I give
all I own to hear what he said when I wasn't
listening to my old man.
I miss the old man tonight.
I can almost see his face.
He was always trying to watch his weight,
and his heart only made it to fifty -eight.
And for the first time since he died,
Late last night I cried,
I wondered when I was gonna do that
For my old man.
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