Stephen Colarelli songs
My Grandpa
Stephen Colarelli
ASCAP
Fiddle: Tim Lorsch, tlorsch@comcast.net
My grandpa was a good old man
Worked the fields, worked the land
With his hands
He lived his life in poverty
Working nights
For a coal company
Oh my grandpa was a good old man
My grandpa fathered two sons
One stayed home,
One went on the run
One was my dad, one was my uncle
One was my friend
One caused me trouble
Oh my grandpa was a good old man
And he'd tell us stories
Sit us on his knee
Drinking black coffee
With a splash of whiskey
He’d light up a Lucky Strike
And tell us about his life
Told me I was a good boy
He had a twinkle in his eye
My grandpa didn’t go to school
Had to work to pay the family’s
Rent and food
But his kids went to college
His grandkids too
He read the papers, he was nobody’s fool
Oh, my grandpa was a good old man
And he'd tell us stories
Sit us on his knee
Drinking black coffee
With a splash of whiskey
He’d light up a Lucky Strike
And tell us about his life
Told me I was a good boy
He had a twinkle in his eye
Oh my grandpa was a good old man
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