Pawpaw

With eyes like the sea and hair like snow,

Hands like steel but a heart of gold,

There’s nothin’ else that I’d rather do

Than be like him when I grow old.

He weren’t real big and he weren’t real tall,

But he’d light up any room that he walked in

And he had a will like a great stone wall,

My Pawpaw.

He wore a ball cap and cowboy boots,

He taught me to fish and taught me to shoot.

He built his house with his own bare hands,

He taught me how to be a man.

There’s some days when the goin’ gets tough,

And I just want to give up the fight,

But then I think of how ashamed he’d be,

And it sets me right.

He rarely rested and he hardly smiled,

But he built a legacy to outlast them all.

Oh, how much darker this world has been

Since the day he answered our Master’s call,

My Pawpaw.

He wore a ball cap and cowboy boots,

He taught me to fish and taught me to shoot.

He built his house with his own bare hands,

He taught me how to be a man.

Yeah, he wore a ball cap and cowboy boots,

And he was taken from us way too soon.

There’s still a lot left for me to understand,

But I know there’ll never be a better man.

My Pawpaw.