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My Grandpa Is Too Old
by
Sam "Lightnin' " Hopkins
recording of 1961
from
Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings (Bluesville 7PCD-4406-2 or Prestige 4406-2)
I want all you young people to know what to do,
leave my grandpa alone 'cause he done got old too
That's my grandpa, that's my grandpa,
that's my grandpa, sweetest man I ever saw
Mama told me, oh, day of old,
your grandpa stood by, tell this is told
Now don't bother my grandpa 'cause he done got old too
I ain't
jivin'
, I ain't jokin',
ain't gonna never bother you
My grandpa he shouts for joy,
been takin' care of me ever since I was a boy
He getting old now,
and he really is
Really I know it 'cause I'm old myself
My grandpa says "Son, take me a walkin',
say I wanna go where's the coolest place you know"
I say "Why, grandpa?",
'cause grandpa's getting old
Tell all you people, done want you to understand,
grandpa once have been a young man
He getting old now
He's getting to be an old man
He can't remember 'morrow, but he still understands
He look at me and he say, "What's this all about?
Give me my pipe son", and he had it in his mouth
He's an old man, you know he don't got the mind,
you see he don't hardly know what he's doing
But he's still my grandpa
But he ain't nothin' else to turn
Tell all you young people, I don't mean no harm,
I just want you to leave my grandpa alone
He says I've got old now, have pity on me
If you bother my grandpa,
I'm the one you gotta see
My dear old dad
My dear old dad
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