my old man … a better tear
I’ve written about my late fathers so much I thought this year I’d let others carry the emotional ball. Leave it to the fat guy, Matt Watroba of Folks Like Us as he got into the sentimental stuff. And boy, there’s a lot. But nobody pulls those heart strings about my dad like Steve Goodman and Guy Clark. Steve pulls a little but real talking about his dad “flying a B-24 over the Burma Road in the big war”. Dad was almost a paratrooper, till the Army noticed his glasses, and it was his brother – my Uncle Bob – who sat backup in a B-24 on the Burma Road. And he got it right at the end “there’s no more charming guy in this whole world than my old man.” And Guy’s extended grief for his dad rested in a special knife, the likes of which we had (and I broke).
Steve Goodman: My Old Man
Guy Clark: Randall Knife
oh, it should work. If not, here’s the original album track https://youtu.be/Gx3jjIdtwUg?si=res_hv81Agbyga-0
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