SOMETIMES STORIES ARE TRUE
MEMPHIS BLUES
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I was seven years old at my grandparents' breakfast table It was ten o'clock in the morning and I was having a bowl of cereal And my grandfather comes rushing in the door He's an old man, he's out of breath and I'm thinking, oh my God, what's wrong, Grandpa, what's wrong He holds his hand up and that means for me to shut up Because you were taught respect back in those days And if you didn't give respect, then you were taught to do something you didn't want anyway A lot of you know what I mean That was back in the days when he said, go pick me a switch, boy, but I'm going to wear you and your brother out with it What? Oh, no, no, no, no, no I cried all the way to the tree, so did he Back in them days when the parents could do this, they said they would beat the, I'm going to beat the water out of you Because I told you, I told you not to do that, but you did that anyway Oh, no, no, no, no, it wasn't me, it was him, it wasn't me And my little brother said, it wasn't me, it was him My daddy had a real quick way of solving a problem real quick He says, well, I'll just whip both of you I'll make sure I get the right one He looked at me and I looked at him and we both said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah It didn't matter if we was quick as lightning, fast as thunder No, no, it didn't matter My daddy was quicker We never did get away from him, no matter how hard we tried Well, well, we was taught respect We was taught manners We was told to hold your head up, boy Keep your head up high Young man, you look a man in the eye Okay, daddy Never drop your head when you're talking to another man, no, no, no, no, no You ain't talking to nobody Hold your head up high Don't beat around the bush Get to the point Don't ask why Whatever they say that you want to know, don't ask why No, no, no, no You just did what you were told Because if you didn't, you'd have to go out there to that switch tree and get another switch I told my little brother, man, I'll tell you what I'll do I'm going to go pick me the biggest switch in that tree He started to offer that I could reach I reached up and grabbed the limb He said, oh, no, no, no, no I hope you're going to get that over there You ain't got no hand saw or nothing I just bent the limb over I got the one that was a little bit smaller than that one that I could break I broke that one It was longer than me and him both, and I kept going There's a wind And every time I went, I could feel that on my backside I said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no They would grab me by the hand And you start taking off like an airplane, yeah Flying around and around and around and around we go Hopping and jumping and screaming Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah Mm, they taught us how to be good that way Ooh Back in those days, yeah When my day with my father came It wasn't nothing like the days in his Father's time when he was a little man Grew into a young man And into a big old burly bear looking man, yeah Mm So anyway, I was at the breakfast table Eating my bowl of cereal My grandfather came in This is the type of men that raise me Because it takes a man, sometimes men To raise a young man To teach this young man discipline because he has none No, no, no, no, no, no, no He ain't got none No, no And you know that you don't have to teach a child how to be bad No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Because we already know how to be bad We already know how to be bad All on our own Yeah, yeah, yeah Ooh, yeah Yes, we do We gotta teach our children how to be good And apparently, in my neighborhood that mean, come here, boy Go back to that switch tree and pick me one That you can barely drag back to me Not again No, no, no And then he looks at my little brother And he says, this time you get to pick it I went, oh, my God No, no, no, no, no Yeah This was the upbringing that I had This was strict because it takes a man to raise a man And women, I'm sorry But you just don't understand Living in that right there That's what you got your mommy for yeah But my Grandpa sat my Grandmother down At the breakfast table Like he did a million times in my lifetime 7 years old Eating my breakfast cereal Watching what was going on My grandpa said Baby We've been together Since we were 15 years old And we're both 85 years old But look at us now Yeah, yeah, yeah I was just out in my garage thinking I've been working on this all weekend For a long time as a hobby My first car, you know, yeah Had plenty of kisses from you mama In the backseat of that old Lincoln Out in the garage Yeah, baby, yeah There's a reason I don't get rid of it Cause we were both just kids When we discovered it Baby But I was in my garage And I was thinking I'm 85 years old My God, I can go anytime So I went on and on and on And I ran and I ran The street of my house The house burnt down And I built my garage their Yeah, yeah You know that's been my main cave For all my life 60 years Oh yeah, 60 years I've turned a lot of wrenches In that garage I sure have But mama, I was sitting there Thinking about you And it crossed my mind I could take my last breath And I don't wanna be Turning no wrenches No, no, no, no, no You've been by my side Since we've been 50 years old And we're both 85 Oh baby Oh All this time you've been By my side You will complete my life And you'll deserve it When I take my last breath I'll be by your side Mmm, yeah And then a second later he said you follow me yeah Follow me into eternity Yeah Follow me into eternity We'll cross into Heaven Heavenly gates of eternity Forever I am Floating like butterflies Baby, just you and me In the promised land Oh, in the promised land When I take my last breath I wanna be holding your hand There by your side Like I've always Like I've always been your man And said Baby, I love you And that's just the way I wanna go to The strangest thing happened About seven years later I was 14 years old I was over at the breakfast table Because I loved my cereal I saw Grandmama and Grandpa Sit down on the couch And I could see them From where I was at And they both grabbed Each other by the hand And they laid their heads back And they walked In the promised land They walked And they walked In the promised land They walked In the promised land Never seen nothing like that in my life Never again will I ever So beautiful They went out peaceful I've been fulfilled I wanna go like that After a long, long, long life Yeah, baby Sometimes the stories are true Yeah, yeah, yeah
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