Drinking Beer with Dad - Kid Rock

It’s the simple things in life

But life ain’t so simple right

And times get hard and people can make you mad

But I remember when I was young

I couldn’t wait to turn 21

Sit in the backyard sun and drink beer with dad

Drinking beer with dad

Out there on the back porch swinging

Drinking beer with dad

Picking my guitar and grinning

We’d hem and haw, we’d cuss and fight

But that’s where I learned life’s best advice

We’d talk about when I was young and bad

Sometimes he’d make me fightin' mad

Best education I ever had

Was out there on the back porch drinking beer with dad

Nowadays most things have changed

This whole world is heading down the drain

There’s no God in schools

Toting guns is the latest fad

A little discipline would sure be nice

A little lesson in wrong and right

Maybe it’s time young man to have a beer with dad

Drinking beer with dad

Out there on the back porch swinging

Drinking beer with dad

Picking my guitar and singing

I’d play him songs all through the night

I’d praise the Lord I saw the light

We’d stay up late and make mom mad

But half the time we’d just laugh and laugh

Some of the best times I ever had

Was out there on the back porch drinking beer with dad

Now son I’m so damn proud of you

And the young man you’ve turned into

You’re the best son a father could ever have

And though your grandpa’s done past on

Soon you’ll be 21

So come on the back porch son and have a beer with dad

Drinking beer with dad

Out there on the back porch swinging

Drinking beer with dad

Picking our guitars and grinning

We’ll hem and haw, we’ll cuss and fight

But I’ll pass along life’s best advice

We’ll talk about your old granddad

The things he gave us he never had

I wish forever our time could last

I wish this world wouldn’t move so fast

Out here on the back porch

Out here on the back porch drinking beer with dad