Pop

I remember when I was growing up, staying with my pop in his old bus

It wasn't much more than a shed, but was a roof over our heads

I'd stay with him every weekend, that old man was my best friend

I miss my pop every day, if I could I'd go back and say

I saw you Pop, working like a dog, plowing the earth and splitting them logs

I saw them pop, thinking you're dirt, believing a dollar marks a mans worth

I listened pop, learned to live right, learned how to love and learned how to fight

I Thank you pop, for all that you done, I've followed your example, I teaching my sons

I remember riding with him in an old beat up GMC with his buddy Uncle Jim

Us three would bum around, working odd jobs, picking up junk that we found

We'd hit the bars, they'd have a brew, while I played pinball and shot pool

And I swear if I could I'd go back, me and my pop would shoot one more rack

And I'd tell him

I trying pop, to do like you showed, but I never knew it was such a hard road

Living simple ain't so simple it seems, it ain't all cornbread and beans

I hope you're proud pop, of who I am, I hope that I'm worthy man

Of the love that you gave, that life that you made for us with your bare hands

I saw you Pop, working like a dog, plowing the earth and splitting them logs

I saw them pop, thinking you're dirt, believing a dollar marks a mans worth

I listened pop, learned to live right, learned how to love and learned how to fight

I Thank you pop, for all that you done, I've followed your example, I teaching my sons

I'm sorry pop, I did what I had to do, it hurts like hell, but I did it for you

I know pop, you would have done the same, you wouldn't have left me lying in pain

I miss you pop, you were once my whole world, but now I've got a wife two boys and a girl

Now pop, I'm living for them, but I'm still that little boy riding with you and Uncle Jim

And I know pop, that I'll see you again, but until then this little boy is missing his best friend