John Denver
- My old man Lyrics
Album:
This song was first released on the rhymes and reasons album. it is the only album it has been released on.
My old man had a rounder's soul.
He'd hear an old freight train.
Then he'd have to go.
Said he'd been blessed with a gipsy bone.
That's the reason they guessed
He'd been cursed to roam.
Came into town back before the war.
Didn't even know what it was
He was looking for.
He carried a tattered bag for his violin.
It was full of lots of songs
Of places that he'd been.
He talked real ea-sy had a smiling way
To pass along to you
When his fiddle played.
Making people drop their cares and woes.
To hum out loud those tunes
That his fiddle howed.
Till the people there began to join that sound.
And everyone in town was laughing.
Singing, dancing round.
Like the fiddler's tune was all they heard that night.
As if some dream said
"All the world is right"
His fiddler's eye caught one beauty there.
She had that rollin' flowin'
golden kind of hair.
He played for her as if she danced alone.
He played his favorite songs.
Ones he called his own.
He played until she was the last to go.
He stopped and packed his case
And said he'd take her home.
All the nights that passed a child was born.
All the years that passed.
That love would keep them warm.
All their lives they'd share a dream come true.
All because she danced
while his fiddle tuned.
My old man had a rounder's soul.
He'd hear an old freight train.
Then he'd have to go.
All that I recall said when I was so young.
No one else could really
Sing those songs he sung.
> Words and music by walker
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- (you dun stomped) my heart
- 60 second song for a bank, with the words,
- 60 second song for a bank, with the words, “may we help you today?�
- Alaska & me
- Alfie: the christmas tree
- All of my memories
- Along for the ride
- Amazon
- Amsterdam
- And so it goes
- And you say that the battle is over
- Around
- Around & around
- Black Bird Fly
- Blow up your tv
- Bread & roses
- Carolina on my mind
- Catch Another Butterfly
- Circus
- Come & let me look in your eyes
- Come and let me look into your eyes
- Cool Anâ?? Green Anâ?? Shady
- Country roads (der richtige text!!)
- Country roads, take me home
- Cowboyâ??s Delight
- Daddy, Whatâ??s A Train?
- Dancing With The Mountains
- Daydreams
- Down by the old mill stream
- Downhill Stuff
- Durango mountain caballero
- Eagles & horses
- Earth day every day
- Easy, On Easy Street
- El paso
- Elipse
- Falling leaves
- Farewell andromeda
- Fill up my senses
- Fire & rain
- Fishin' gone
- Flight
- Flight (The Higher We Fly)
- For baby (for bobby)
- Forest Lawn
- Fugacity
- Gimme Your Love
- Going camping
- Got My Heart Set On You
- Hey old pal
- Hey There, Mr. Lonely Heart
- High, wide & handsome
- Holy night
- Home on the range
- How mountain girls can love
- I wish i could have been there
- I wish i knew how it would feel to be free
- I'm kissing you goodbye
- I’d rather be a cowboy
- Im Sorry Jd
- It Makes Me Giggle
- It's in every one of us
- Jessie Paints A Picture
- Jimmy newman
- Johnny B. Goode
- Joseph and joe
- Kissing you goodbye
- Lady
- Late Night Radio
- Late nite radio
- Let us begin
- Love of the common people
- Me and my uncle
- Merry Christmas Little Zachary
- Moreton Bay
- My heart
- My old man
- No one like you
- Noel: christmas eve, 1913
- Nothing But A Breeze
- On the atchison, topeka & the sante fe
- On the wings of an eagle
- Paradise
- Peace carol
- Poems, prayers & promises
- Polka dots & moonbeams
- Postcard from paris (i wish you were here)
- Postcards from paris
- Postcards from paris (wish you were here)
- Prisoners
- Prisoners (hard life, hard times)
- Readjustment blues
- Rhymes & reasons
- Rocky mountain suite
- Rudolph the red nose reindeer
- San Antonio Rose
- Saturday night in toledo, ohio
- Season suite :
- Seasonf of the heart
- She won't let me fly away
- She'll be comin' 'round the mountain
- Shipmates & cheyenne
- Singing skies & dancing waters
- Sixty second song for a bank
- Some Days Are Diamonds
- Somethinâ?? About
- Spring
- Storms of november
- Sweet Melinda
- Take me to tomorrow
- That's the way it's gonna be
- The ballad of gary hart
- The ballad of spiro agnew
- The ballad of st. anne’s reel
- The Box
- The cowboy & the lady
- The eagle & the hawk
- The first noël
- The gold & beyond
- The twelve days of christmas
- The Wandering Soul
- The wandering soul (love is the answer)
- Thought Of You
- Time In A Bottle
- Today is the first day of the rest of my life (sugacity)
- Tools
- Tradewinds
- We wish you a merry christmas
- Whalebones & crosses
- Whalebones and crosses
- When i’m sixty - four
- When the river meets the sea
- Whiskey Basin Blues
- Whose Garden Was This?
- Wild flowers in a mason jar
- Wild Flowers In A Mason Jar (The Farm)
- Winter
- Wish you were here
- Wish you were here (postcard du paris)
- Wooden Indian
- Wrangell mountain song
- Yellowstone, coming home
- You dun stomped on my heart
- You fill up my senses
- You say the battle is over
- You’re still the one for me
- The Christmas Wish
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