Grasshopper MacClain-Jimmy Dean

[ti:Grasshopper MacClain] [ar:Jimmy Dean] [al:Big Bad John] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Grasshopper MacClain - Jimmy Dean [00:09.16]Me and that navy ain't speakin' [00:10.63] [00:11.90]At sailin' I tell you I'm through [00:13.88] [00:16.44]On the advice of a doc [00:17.98]I got me a shock [00:19.23]I had to have somethin' to do [00:21.57] [00:24.08]These nerves I got are from soakin' too long [00:26.83]When the ship got hit by a plane [00:28.57] [00:32.43]And right here about four years back [00:35.07] [00:35.85]I met Grasshopper MacClain [00:37.58] [00:40.35]The sun was a burnin' [00:41.68]And the desert red hot [00:43.35]When his mother drove in with a flat [00:45.23] [00:48.17]She went inside to cool off [00:49.44]With a beer and I saw [00:51.03]Her kid in the back [00:52.83] [00:56.83]He lay on the seat in the [00:58.37]Swelterin' heat with hair the color of flame [01:00.66] [01:04.92]A red headed mite but [01:06.12]Smilin' and bright was [01:07.51]Little ol' Grasshopper MacClain [01:09.24] [01:10.72]I fixed her tyre and was totin' him [01:12.34]Round when she asked me [01:13.49]How much she owed [01:14.78] [01:16.29]I just laughed and [01:17.18]Said boy I settle for him [01:19.26] [01:20.41]And to my surprice s [01:21.71]He drove off down the road [01:23.63] [01:24.90]I figured she'd sober and [01:25.97]Come hurryin' back but for three long years [01:29.95]She never came [01:30.94] [01:32.14]And all that time I was [01:33.69]Mother and dad to little [01:35.02]Ol' Grasshopper MacClain [01:36.56] [01:38.12]I'd tell him of ships [01:39.18]I'd sailed on the seas [01:40.74]When I put him in bed at night [01:42.96] [01:43.58]And that freckle faced kid [01:44.69]Was as sharp as a tack and [01:46.01]Quick as a mate for a fight [01:47.55] [01:50.34]I thought I'd wait till he [01:51.34]Growed a bit and let him [01:52.45]Pick out his own name [01:54.01] [01:55.60]One day he came in with [01:57.02]A bug in his hand and [01:58.39]He said me Grasshopper MacClain [02:01.11] [02:02.71]Oh he'd mimic my walk [02:04.25]And he'd mimic my talk [02:05.57] [02:06.11]Like my shadow he just [02:07.29]Tagged me around [02:08.57] [02:10.09]Even had to be checked every time [02:11.53]I was checked by the navy [02:12.83]Doc over the town [02:14.16] [02:16.28]The doc'd laugh and thump [02:17.76]His little ole chest and [02:18.88]Say feller you're right as rain [02:21.55] [02:23.59]Then he'd turn to me and [02:24.78]Tell me that I'd be a new man [02:26.80]Thanks to Grasshopper MacClain [02:27.73] [02:30.48]I guess you wonder why [02:31.62]I'm tellin' you this well [02:34.88]That's why I'm here doin' time [02:36.10] [02:38.29]For a bang and a sheriff [02:39.84]And a red headed dame [02:40.80]That came to take what was mine [02:43.12] [02:44.75]Oh but you should've seen [02:45.89]The way he fought you could [02:48.37]Tell that kid was navy trained [02:50.41] [02:53.68]But this lonely cell wouldn't be [02:55.24] [02:56.53]So much like hell if I only [03:01.11]Had Grasshopper MacClain