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Started work when I was ten
Like my father did back then
Driving Pittsburgh steel with hammers under flames

Fifty years up in that mill
I nearly killed myself and still
I ain’t got no dollar bill to my name

Old Bill Hicks from nowhere’s middle
Taught me how to play the fiddle
In east Ohio there ain’t too much going on

But we like it that way here
Not much changes every year
Except the whiskey jug gets lower till it’s gone

At the same old screen door that the dogs scratch through
And the same old wood floor underneath my shoe
And the same old woman making chicken every night
Yeah I guess I did alright

I was only seventeen
Met a girl from Bowling Green
It was the fieriest kind of winter fling

She got pregnant with my son
I didn’t have nowhere to run
So I manned up and we married in the spring

At the same old screen door that the dogs scratch through
And the same old wood floor underneath my shoe
And the same old woman causing trouble every night
Yeah I guess I did alright

Started work when I was ten
Like my father did back then
Driving Pittsburgh steel with hammers under flames

Now I’m nearly sixty-eight
Got a gal that sets me straight
And I’ve got supper on my plate
And I’ve got grandkids on the way
And I owe money to the state
Because my taxes all were late
But if you think I care then you’re just making noise

At the same old screen door that the dogs scratch through
And the same old wood floor underneath my shoe
And the same old woman leaving on that old porch light
Yeah I guess I did alright

c. 2014 Goodnight, Texas - Seriously Serious Songs (ASCAP) / Porch Couch Songs (ASCAP)

Appears on the 2014 album “Uncle John Farquhar”
Recorded by Goodnight, Texas
Mixed by Scott McDowell
Mastered by Jonathan Kirchner