Drinking Beer With Dad

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It’s the simple things in life.  
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But life ain’t so simple right
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And times get hard and people can 
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make you mad
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But I remember when I was young.  I
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 couldn’t wait to turn twenty one
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Sit in the backyard sun and drink
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 beer with dad

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Drinking beer with dad,  Out there 
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on the back porch swinging
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Drinking beer with dad,  Picking my
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 guitar and grinning
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We’d hem and haw, we’d cuss and 
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fight.  But that’s where I learned 
life’s best advice
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We’d talk about when I was young 
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and bad.  Sometimes he’d make me 
fightin’ mad
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Best education I ever had.  Was 
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out there on the back porch drinking
 beer with dad

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Now a days most things have 
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changed.  This whole world is 
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heading down the drain
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There’s no God in schools.  Toting 
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guns is the latest fad
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A little discipline would sure be 
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nice.  A little lesson in wrong and
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 right
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Maybe it’s time young man to have
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 a beer with dad

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Drinking beer with dad.  Out there 
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on the back porch swinging
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Drinking beer with dad.  Picking my
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 guitar and singing
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I’d play him songs all through the 
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night.  I’d praise the Lord I saw 
the light
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We’d stay up late and make mom mad.
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  But half the time we’d just laugh 
and laugh
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Some of the best times I ever 
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had.  Was out there on the back 
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porch drinking beer with dad

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Now son I’m so damn proud of you.  
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And the young man you’ve turned 
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in-to
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You’re the best son a father could
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 ever have.
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And though your grandpa’s done past
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 on.  Soon you’ll be twenty one.
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So come on the back porch son and 
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have a beer with dad

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Drinking beer with dad.  Out there 
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on the back porch swinging
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Drinking beer with dad.  Picking 
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our guitars and grinning
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We’ll hem and haw, we’ll cuss and 
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fight.  But I’ll pass along life’s 
best advice
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We’ll talk about your old granddad.
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  The things he gave us he never had
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I wish forever our time could 
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last.  I wish this world wouldn’t 
move so fast
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Out here on the back porch.  Out 
here on the back porch drinking beer
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 with dad