| I wish that my Grandad was still here today
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| Cause I’d love to hear what he’d have to say
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| About three dollars and fifty-nine cents for a gallon of gas.
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| And I’d show him my wife and what I’ve done with my life,
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| And see if he liked all these songs that I write.
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| Oh, I wish I knew what he would think about the fact that
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| If you’re sixteen and pregnant, you’ll get on TV,
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| But yet we’re laying off school teachers fast as can be.
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| Oh, I wish I knew what he’d think about us now.
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| He’d probably ask me why the good ole' US of A
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| Is so damn tied up in our foreign aid
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| When American farmers got to sell all the cows
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| To keep the bank from taking the house.
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| I wish I could write him in on my ballot for the next president.
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| Cause there’s men like John Wayne, Augustus McCrae, the Lone Ranger and his
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| Indian friend,
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| But there will never be another man like him.
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| I’m glad that I’m not some big Hollywood star
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| Who thinks they have the right to go as far
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| As bitching about the hundred million dollars they make a year.
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| Cause' there’s scars on my nuckles and sweat on my brow
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| And I know that Grandpa, he’d sure be proud
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| Of my little part that I’ve made to our family tree.
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| He’d probably ask me why people like Casey Anthony can get off Scott free
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| And why our taxes are still killing folks just like you and me.
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| Oh, I wish I knew what he’d think about us now.
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| He’d probably ask me why the good ole' US of A
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| Is so damn tied up in our foreign aid
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| When the American farmers got to sell all the cows
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| To keep the bank from taking the house.
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| I wish I could write him in on my ballot for the next president.
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| Cause there’s men like John Wayne, Augustus McCrae, the Lone Ranger and his
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| Indian friend,
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| But there will never be another man like him.
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| Yeah, there’s men like John Wayne, Augustus McCrae, the Lone Ranger and his
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| Indian friend,
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| But there will never be another man like him. |