Leonard Calhoun - Adam Calhoun

Hard workin', hard hands

Sweatin' like the devil with my farmers tan

My grandfather said «Chop that wood

Don’t cuss at your mama, boy you got to be good»

Life goes by fast take it slow

One day you’re young and the next day you’re old

He used to tell me all this at our fishin' hole

I used to carry all his tackle and his fishin' pole

I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me

When I was just a boy I’d sit on his knee

He said «Son let me tell you about

The south and how it goes around here»

I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me

When I was just a boy I’d sit on his knee

He said «Son let me tell you about

The south and how it goes around here»

My daddy wasn’t there but the old man was

He taught me how to fish, he taught me to hunt

And if I got bored he said widdle some wood

Or go take that ol' dog go get lost in the woods

I stay up all night and just sit on the porch

He used to tell me stories about when he was a boy

He grew up down the hollar at the end of Lick Fork

In a little old cabin and they were so poor

He started workin' at the age of 10

He left school and never went back again

I’ll tell ya, old boy could swing a hammer and an axe

And when times get tough, you’d get the shirt off his back

I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me

When I was just a boy I’d sit on his knee

He said «Son let me tell you about

The south and how it goes around here»

I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me

When I was just a boy I’d sit on his knee

He said «Son let me tell you about

The south and how it goes around here»

I’m older, and he’s gone now

But I never forgot what we talked about

My grandfather told me stand up proud

Don’t you ever start a fight, but don’t ever back down

No, no, and I miss him so

It tears up my heart, it rips my soul

Now looking down the ridge where we used to go

I can still hear his voice and I know he knows

I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me

When I was just a boy I’d sit on his knee

He said «Son let me tell you about

The south and how it goes around here»

I can tell you stories my granddaddy told me

When I was just a boy I’d sit on his knee

He said «Son let me tell you about

The south and how it goes around here»