They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy-Cal Smith

[ti:They Don't Make 'em Like My Daddy] [ar:Cal Smith] [al:Cal Smith: Studio 102 Essentials] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy - Cal Smith [00:09.20]I wasn't much more than a baby [00:11.10] [00:11.91]I thought he was a bear [00:13.43] [00:14.27]The way my daddy carried me around [00:16.58] [00:18.67]They said I learned to walk [00:20.46]While holdin' on to just one finger [00:22.52] [00:23.19]On the hand of a man [00:24.22]That stands at six-foot-three [00:25.40] [00:27.78]Not old enough to understand [00:29.35] [00:30.03]The meaning of depression [00:31.47] [00:32.40]Just something people [00:33.55]Talked about a lot [00:35.06] [00:36.88]My daddy wasn't one [00:38.53]That tried to make no big impressions [00:40.49] [00:41.19]Just one heck of a man [00:42.40]That worked for what he got [00:44.03] [00:45.73]They don't make men like [00:47.04]My daddy anymore [00:48.09] [00:50.24]Guess they've thrown away [00:51.58]The pattern through the years [00:53.18] [00:54.77]In a great big land of freedom [00:56.64] [00:57.30]At a time we really need 'em [00:59.39]They don't make 'em like [01:00.55]My daddy anymore [01:01.95] [01:13.11]From the Johnson County coal camps [01:15.71]To the hills of West Virginia [01:17.10] [01:17.82]My daddy hauled the timber for the mines [01:20.32] [01:22.12]Education didn't count so much as [01:24.78]What you had born in you [01:26.35] [01:26.87]Like the will to live and a dream [01:28.84]Of better times [01:29.61] [01:31.14]Daddy never took a handout [01:32.99] [01:33.52]We ate pinto beans a bacon [01:35.35] [01:35.96]But he worked to keep the wolf [01:37.59]Back from the door [01:38.57] [01:40.47]And it only proves one thing to me [01:42.67]When folks start belly achin' [01:44.81]They don't make 'em like [01:45.97]My daddy anymore [01:47.55] [01:49.39]They don't make 'em like [01:50.48]My daddy anymore [01:52.05] [01:53.83]Guess they've thrown away the pattern [01:55.81]Through the years [01:56.74] [01:58.49]In a great big land of freedom [02:00.23] [02:00.95]At a time we really need 'em [02:03.08]They don't make 'em like [02:04.25]My daddy anymore [02:05.60] [02:07.62]They don't make 'em like [02:08.71]My daddy anymore