The Old Man (a lyric)

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.png"> <div> <B>THE OLD MAN (A lyric)    |   </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Willys New Joint"><B>Willys New Joint</B></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad2c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <IMG SRC="131c8960.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="1f6c8850.jpg" border=0 width="200" height="133" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B><U>THE OLD MAN</U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>By WILLY SENKIWSKY 4/22/04 9:00 PM, D-Harp, Key of A, Folk Song</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I walked into a bar to quench my thirst.</B></div> <div> <B>An old man was there I didn't know him at first!</B></div> <div> <B>He was lookin at me I was gone say somethin wise.</B></div> <div> <B>But then I thought where have I seen those eyes?!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The old man hadn't been around in like thirty years.</B></div> <div> <B>Hell the last time I seen him I was drinkin beers!</B></div> <div> <B>When the barmaid came I ordered a whiskey.</B></div> <div> <B>That old man now started smiling at me!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I said, man seems like we know each other.</B></div> <div> <B>He lifted his glass and the memory's fell together!</B></div> <div> <B>I saw the scars on his weathered old hands.</B></div> <div> <B>All of a sudden I remembered the old man!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Little Joe was the name of the old man.</B></div> <div> <B>He played drums in one of Muddy's bands!</B></div> <div> <B>The scar was from when off a jack a car fell.</B></div> <div> <B>I heard the bones breakin but he didn't yell!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I asked him, Joe where the hell you been?</B></div> <div> <B>He said he been where he been ain't goin again!</B></div> <div> <B>Sittin at the bar I felt I was back in seventytwo.</B></div> <div> <B>With the man who taught me all about the Blues!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We sat there drinkin and talkin the time away.</B></div> <div> <B>When I got back to work I was two hours late.</B></div> <div> <B>I told my boss sorry but you need to understand.</B></div> <div> <B>But I'd do just about anything for the old man!!!...</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>@2004 Willy Senkiwsky</B></div> <bR> <div> "The Blues are the roots, and the other music is the fruits." One of Willie Dixon's favorite sayings, from I Am The Blues by Willie Dixon with Don Snowden (DaCapo, 1989)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Willys New Joint"><B>Back Home</B></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>