Grandpa Was A Carpenter-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

[ti:Grandpa Was A Carpenter] [ar:Nitty Gritty Dirt Band] [al:Will The Circle Be Unbroken Volume Two] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.63]Grandpa Was A Carpenter (爷爷是个木匠) - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band [00:08.39] [00:09.71]Written by：John Prine [00:15.11] [00:22.40]Oh grandpa wore his suit to dinner nearly every day [00:26.24] [00:27.23]No particular reason [00:29.34]He just dressed that way [00:30.64] [00:31.63]Brown necktie with a matching vest and [00:34.33]Both his wingtip shoes [00:35.60] [00:36.11]He built a closet on our back porch and [00:38.29]Put a penny in a burned out fuse [00:39.79] [00:40.67]Grandpa was a carpenter [00:42.57]He built houses [00:43.41]Stores and banks [00:44.45] [00:45.17]Chain smoked camel cigarettes [00:46.73] [00:47.42]And hammered nails in planks [00:48.85] [00:49.35]He would level on the level [00:51.50]He shaved even every door [00:54.05]And voted for eisen hower [00:56.18]'Cause lincoln won the war [00:57.93] [01:08.64]Well he used to sing me blood on the saddl [01:10.96]And rock me on his knee [01:12.26] [01:12.92]And let me listen to the radio before we got tv [01:16.84] [01:17.54]Well he'd drive to church on sunday and [01:19.80]He'd take me with him too [01:21.37] [01:21.98]Stained glass in every window [01:24.15]Hearing aids in every pew [01:25.92] [01:26.66]Grandpa was a carpenter [01:28.50]He built houses stores and banks [01:30.21] [01:31.06]Chain smoked camel cigarettes [01:33.27]And hammered nails in planks [01:35.38]He would level on the level [01:36.97] [01:37.47]He shaved even every door [01:40.03]And voted for eisen hower [01:42.07]'Cause lincoln won the war [01:43.72] [01:54.37]Well my grandma was a teacher [01:55.98] [01:56.53]She went to school in bowling green [01:58.24] [01:59.10]Traded in a milking cow for a singer sewing machine [02:02.60] [02:03.32]Well she called her husband mister [02:05.29]And she walked real tall and proud [02:07.33] [02:08.03]She used to buy me comic books after grandpa died [02:11.91] [02:12.56]Grandpa was a carpenter he built houses [02:15.12]Stores and banks [02:16.23] [02:16.97]Chain smoked camel cigarettes [02:18.94]And hammered nails in planks [02:20.70] [02:21.36]He would level on the level [02:22.85] [02:23.45]He shaved even every door [02:26.10]And voted for eisen hower [02:28.14]'Cause lincoln won the war [02:29.81] [02:49.64]Grandpa was a carpenter [02:51.67]He built houses stores and banks [02:53.29] [02:54.15]Chain smoked camel cigarettes [02:55.85] [02:56.37]And hammered nails in planks [02:57.97] [02:58.51]He would level on the level [03:00.52]He shaved even every door [03:03.26]And voted for eisen hower [03:05.14]'Cause lincoln won the war [03:06.61] [03:07.53]Voted for eisen hower [03:09.87]'Cause lincoln won the war