My Old Man Lyrics

Rodney Atkins - My old man
Intro - D - G - D - G
(verse 1)
I got a picture of him bare foot in the mud,
Behind his grandpa's plow and two gray mules,
When he turned ten years old in May fifty three,
He grew up fearin God in Washburn, Tennesee,
(bridge)
The closest thing that he had to a dad was his uncle Bob,
And he could only dream of things like little league baseball,
That little boy with big blue eyes and callused hands,
mm became My Old Man,
(verse 2)
She was a Kentucky girl born on Valentine's day,
A fourth child of five to my grandma Uma May,
So shy and beautiful with sunset hair and emerald eyes,
Daddy spent his life workin in the coal mines,
(bridge)
And in my eyes, all of my life, my dad's been a saint,
But even saints need angels to show them the way,
And over thirty-seven years ago he asked for Margaret Lynn's hand,
And that angel married My Old Man,
(bridge)
There were times I tried to buck the truthful things they said,
Now I'm glad that more than once they rattled my stubborn head,
Bm E A C#m F#m - E---walk down
Cause my folks are just like mountains I look at from afar,
But now the closer I get to them the bigger they are,
(ending verse)
Time seens to fly anymore and the holidays are so far apart,
There's no way a phone call could express what's in my heart,
So this is just a song to say How thankful I am,
For momma and My Old Man, for momma and dad,