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I was seven years old at my grandparents' breakfast table
It was ten o'clock in the morning and I was having a bowl of cereal
And my grandfather comes rushing in the door
He's an old man, he's out of breath and I'm thinking, oh my God, what's wrong, Grandpa, what's wrong

He holds his hand up and that means for me to shut up
Because you were taught respect back in those days
And if you didn't give respect, then you were taught to do something you didn't want anyway
A lot of you know what I mean

That was back in the days when he said, go pick me a switch, boy, but I'm going to wear you and your brother out with it
What? Oh, no, no, no, no, no
I cried all the way to the tree, so did he
Back in them days when the parents could do this, they said they would beat the, I'm going to beat the water out of you

Because I told you, I told you not to do that, but you did that anyway
Oh, no, no, no, no, it wasn't me, it was him, it wasn't me
And my little brother said, it wasn't me, it was him
My daddy had a real quick way of solving a problem real quick

He says, well, I'll just whip both of you
I'll make sure I get the right one
He looked at me and I looked at him and we both said, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
It didn't matter if we was quick as lightning, fast as thunder

No, no, it didn't matter
My daddy was quicker
We never did get away from him, no matter how hard we tried
Well, well, we was taught respect

We was taught manners
We was told to hold your head up, boy
Keep your head up high
Young man, you look a man in the eye

Okay, daddy
Never drop your head when you're talking to another man, no, no, no, no, no
You ain't talking to nobody
Hold your head up high

Don't beat around the bush
Get to the point
Don't ask why
Whatever they say that you want to know, don't ask why

No, no, no, no
You just did what you were told
Because if you didn't, you'd have to go out there to that switch tree and get another switch
I told my little brother, man, I'll tell you what I'll do

I'm going to go pick me the biggest switch in that tree
He started to offer that I could reach
I reached up and grabbed the limb
He said, oh, no, no, no, no

I hope you're going to get that over there
You ain't got no hand saw or nothing
I just bent the limb over
I got the one that was a little bit smaller than that one that I could break

I broke that one
It was longer than me and him both, and I kept going
There's a wind
And every time I went, I could feel that on my backside

I said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
They would grab me by the hand
And you start taking off like an airplane, yeah
Flying around and around and around and around we go

Hopping and jumping and screaming
Ooh, yeah, yeah, yeah
Mm, they taught us how to be good that way
Ooh

Back in those days, yeah
When my day with my father came
It wasn't nothing like the days in his Father's time when he was a little man

Grew into a young man
And into a big old burly bear looking man, yeah
Mm
So anyway, I was at the breakfast table

Eating my bowl of cereal
My grandfather came in
This is the type of men that raise me
Because it takes a man, sometimes men

To raise a young man
To teach this young man discipline
because he has none
No, no, no, no, no, no, no

He ain't got none
No, no
And you know that you don't have to teach a child how to be bad

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Because we already know how to be bad
We already know how to be bad
All on our own

Yeah, yeah, yeah
Ooh, yeah
Yes, we do
We gotta teach our children how to be good

And apparently, in my neighborhood
that mean, come here, boy
Go back to that switch tree
and pick me one

That you can barely drag back to me
Not again
No, no, no
And then he looks at my little brother

And he says, this time you get to pick it
I went, oh, my God
No, no, no, no, no
Yeah

This was the upbringing that I had
This was strict
because it takes a man to raise a man
And women, I'm sorry

But you just don't understand
Living in that right there
That's what you got your mommy for yeah

But my Grandpa sat my Grandmother down
At the breakfast table
Like he did a million times in my lifetime
7 years old

Eating my breakfast cereal
Watching what was going on
My grandpa said
Baby

We've been together
Since we were 15 years old
And we're both 85 years old
But look at us now

Yeah, yeah, yeah
I was just out in my garage thinking
I've been working on this all weekend
For a long time as a hobby

My first car, you know, yeah
Had plenty of kisses from you mama
In the backseat of that old Lincoln
Out in the garage

Yeah, baby, yeah
There's a reason I don't get rid of it
Cause we were both just kids
When we discovered it

Baby
But I was in my garage
And I was thinking
I'm 85 years old

My God, I can go anytime
So I went on and on and on
And I ran and I ran
The street of my house

The house burnt down
And I built my garage their
Yeah, yeah
You know that's been my main cave

For all my life
60 years
Oh yeah, 60 years
I've turned a lot of wrenches

In that garage
I sure have
But mama, I was sitting there
Thinking about you

And it crossed my mind
I could take my last breath
And I don't wanna be
Turning no wrenches

No, no, no, no, no
You've been by my side
Since we've been 50 years old
And we're both 85

Oh baby
Oh
All this time you've been
By my side

You will complete my life
And you'll deserve it
When I take my last breath
I'll be by your side

Mmm, yeah
And then a second later he said
you follow me yeah

Follow me into eternity
Yeah
Follow me into eternity
We'll cross into Heaven

Heavenly gates of eternity
Forever I am
Floating like butterflies
Baby, just you and me

In the promised land
Oh, in the promised land
When I take my last breath
I wanna be holding your hand

There by your side
Like I've always
Like I've always been your man
And said

Baby, I love you
And that's just the way
I wanna go to
The strangest thing happened

About seven years later
I was 14 years old
I was over at the breakfast table
Because I loved my cereal

I saw Grandmama and Grandpa
Sit down on the couch
And I could see them
From where I was at

And they both grabbed
Each other by the hand
And they laid their heads back
And they walked

In the promised land
They walked
And they walked
In the promised land

They walked
In the promised land
Never seen nothing like that in my life
Never again will I ever

So beautiful
They went out peaceful
I've been fulfilled
I wanna go like that

After a long, long, long life
Yeah, baby
Sometimes the stories are true
Yeah, yeah, yeah

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