Текст песни David Alan Coe - Old Man Tell Me
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By: David Allan Coeand Buzz RabinI`VE SEEN THE OLD MAN SITTING` `ROUNDTHE COURTHOUSE SQUARE BACK HOME IN TOWNTALKIN` ABOUT THE BIG WAR BACK IN 1943SAYING` HOW MUCH GOOD IT`S DONEMEDALS GLEAMING` IN THE SUNCUSSING` AT MY LONG HAIRAND MY TALK OF BEING` FREETHEIR VISION LIKE THEIR BATTLE SCARSOF OTHER WARS HAS FADEDLIKE THE COLORS ON THE RIBBONSFROM THE BATTLES THAT THEY`VE WONIF THERE`S ONE THING I`VE LEARNED IT`S THISYOU JUST CAN`T SHAKE HAND WITH A FISTAND I ONCE DID MY TALKIN` WITH A GUNAND, OLD MAN, I KNOW WHAT YOU`VE SEENBUT YOURS IS NOT THE ONLY DREAMI HAVE TO BELIEVE IN SOMETHING MORE THAN YESTERDAYLET IT DIE JUST LIKE THE PASTI BELIEVE THERE`S HOPE AT LASTOLD MAN, DID YOU EVER HAVE TO PRAYOLD MAN, CAN YOU SHOW ME THE WAYHE SHAKES HIS HEAD FROM TIME TO TIMEAND RAMBLES SOMEWHERE IN HIS MINDMUMBLING` `BOUT THE CIVIL WARAND HOW WE SHOULD HAVE WONSETTING` UP HIS BATTLE PLANSON CHECKER BOARDS AT HIS COMMANDWATCHING` ALL HIS GALLANT KINGS GO FALLEN` ONE BY ONEAND "SON," HE`D SAY, "THERE`S NOT MUCH TIMEFOR YOU TO STRAIGHTEN OUT YOUR MINDBUT YOU NEVER LISTEN TO THE THINGS I TRY TO SAY"AND I JUST TURN MY HEAD AND CRYNEVER UNDERSTANDING WHYHE`D SET UP THAT CHECKER BOARDWHEN HE KNEW I COULDN`T PLAY