I have been around a bit
Never missed a thing~
Very observant in my day
And have the best a memory can bring~
Always been a good man
But hey no thanks for doing that~
Just doing what we all should do
Or else I'll eat my hat~
Helped so many along the way
That's what the bible said to do~
I always practice what I preach
Ask me and I'll tell you~
But along the way out of all
The things that get me going~
Is the constant human behavior
That like a bad wind that almost always be blowing~
In this case I use my father
For example to explain~
He was born and bred a christian man
And died one just the same~
He helped any and everyone he could
In his daily life~
And mostly due to others
He knew his share of strife~
But what really gets to me
As I travel all around~
Are these types that simply cannot stop
Running good folks names into the ground~
They themselves in many ways
Did their best in life it's so~
But they run others names into the ground
To make them selves feel better don't ya know~
I cannot for the life of me
Understand at all~
How running those that stood so grand
Makes some types feel so tall~
In life we can only do our best
And that I'm sure everybody tries and tried~
But running down the name of the good
Gets to me once mostly when they've died~
Will not be long and they will join them
As I know we all one day must do~
But knowing we all have to face our God
A little fore thought wouldn't go astray it's true~
Like that bucket of crabs story I tell
I cannot understand or see the sense~
In running others down to build self up
Thinking right out side of the fence~