Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)

About Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)

"Old Man & Me (When I Get To Heaven)" is a song by American rock group Hootie & the Blowfish. It was released in April 1996 as the lead single from their second album, Fairweather Johnson. In the United States, it peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 18 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, and number six on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The song also reached number one in Canada, the band's third and final single to do so.

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2004

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Well, an old man said to me in a voice filled with pain,
"Where you going young man?"
Said I'm going to fight a war, 
gonna fight for my country in some foreign land.
He said,"The sun will never hurt you, never harmed anyone, 
but you must realize if you try to stare her down, she will win in the end.
She will burn your eyes, she will burn them."
 
Seen a million places, seen a million faces die.
and I wonder who will walk with me when I get to Heaven.
 
He said, "Boy, I was young once, yeah, 
I was tough, sailing on Uncle Sam's boat.
Hey, I could kill the enemy, 
I could die on foreign streets, but I could not vote.
But now you walk by me, you won't talk to me, say this is my fate.
But ev'ry time you walk the streets, boy, most of them you meet. 
You see it's you they hate, it's you, yeah."
 
Seen a million faces, seen a million places die.
and I wonder who will walk with me when I get to Heaven.
I've seen a million places, seen a million faces die.
and I wonder who will walk with me when I get there.
 
See this woman sitting next to me, 
she's been there for a long, long time.
And when I fell, she picked me up; 
when I cried, she wiped my tears. 
I thank God she's mine.
And when I leave this world, 
she won't have anything but her love for me.
'Cause the man took ev'rything else,
made me hate myself, so just let her be, boy.
Won't you let her be?
 
Seen a million places, seen a million faces die.
I've seen a million mothers cry,
I've seen a billion brothers dying,
but I wonder who will walk with me when I get there,
when I get to heaven, when I get there, when I get to Heaven.
 

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Hootie & the Blowfish

Hootie & the Blowfish is an American rock band that was popular in the 1990s. They were originally formed in 1986 at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld, and Mark Bryan. As of July 2010[update], the band had charted sixteen singles on various Billboard singles charts and recorded five studio albums; and their 1994 debut album, Cracked Rear View, was the 15th best-selling album of all time in the US, having been certified platinum 16 times. more »

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