A Song Your Daddy Sang

from Our Daddy's Plymouth by Bob Martin

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I couldn't sleep so I wrote this at 2:00 a.m. sitting on the front steps of the house I was living in at the corner of 7th North and 7th East in Provo, Utah. The album was almost done, so we bumped another song and substituted this one.

When I wrote this, I imagined playing it at bedtime for the kids I would one day have. I also imagined them saying, "Ah, c'mon Dad, not again." Now I try to play it for my grandkids.

Everyone asks who the guy is in the background with the real voice--that's Marvin Payne, who with his partner Guy Randle practically went bankrupt recording this album for me for what little money I could afford. I still appreciate them greatly for allowing me the opportunity to do this.

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Here's a song your Daddy sang
Before he met your mom;
He sang it as his guitar rang
Before you came along.

"The sun goes down in lavender
To end another day;
Jesus was the carpenter
Who built the Milky Way."

His thumbs hooked in his corduroys,*
He'd gaze up at the stars,
"One day I'll have little boys--
I wonder where they are."

When sleep had settled on the land
He'd close his eyes and say,
"One day I'll have little girls*
And teach them how to pray."

La la la...
Jesus was the carpenter--
Now it's time to pray.

* What I should have written--our first two kids were girls, Liz and Emilie. Special thanks to son Andy for putting this up on bandcamp for me.

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from Our Daddy's Plymouth, released November 30, 1978

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