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My Old Man
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Jack Ingram
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My old man, he had a ramblin' soul
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He'd hear an old freight train and he had to roll
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Said he'd been blessed with a gypsy bone
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That's the reason I guess he'd been cursed to roam
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He came to town back before the war
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He didn't even know that it was he was looking for
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He carried a tattered bag for his violin
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It was full of songs from places he had been
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He talked real easy, had a smilin' way
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He could pass it on to you while his fiddle played
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He was makin' people drop their cares and woes
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They'd hum out loud to tunes that his fiddled bowed
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The people there began to join that sound
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Everyone in town was laughin', singin', dancin' round
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Like the fiddler's tunes were all they heard that night
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As if some dream had said all in the world was right
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His eye caught a dancing lady there
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She had that rollin', flowin', golden, danglin' kind of hair
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He played for her as if she danced alone
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He played his favorite songs, the ones he called his own
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She alone was dancing in the room
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The only thing left moving to his fiddler's tune
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He played until she was the last to go
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He stopped and packed his case and said he'd take her home
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In all the nights that passed, a child was born
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And all the years that passed, love would keep them warm
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All their lives they've shared a dream come true
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All because she danced so well to his fiddler's tune
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But the train next morning, she blew a lonesome sound
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As if she sang the blues of what she took from town
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All that I recall he said when I was young
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Was no one else could really sing the songs he sung
Jack Ingram - Measure of a Man (Album Ve...
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