| I want all you young people to know what to do
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| Leave my grandpa alone 'cause he done got old too
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| That’s my grandpa, that’s my grandpa
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| That’s my grandpa, sweetest man I ever saw
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| Mama told me, oh, day of old
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| Your grandpa stood by, tell this is told
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| Now don’t bother my grandpa 'cause he done got old too
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| I ain’t jivin', I ain’t jokin'
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| Ain’t gonna never bother you
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| My grandpa he shouts for joy
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| Been takin' care of me ever since I was a boy
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| He getting old now
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| And he really is
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| Really I know it 'cause I’m old myself
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| My grandpa says son, take me a walkin'
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| Say I wanna go where’s the coolest place you know
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| I say why, grandpa?
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| 'Cause grandpa’s getting old
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| Tell all you people, done want you to understand
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| Grandpa once have been a young man
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| He getting old now
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| He’s getting to be an old man
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| He can’t remember 'morrow, but he still understands
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| He look at me and he say, what’s this all about?
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| Give me my pipe son, and he had it in his mouth
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| He’s an old man, you know he don’t got the mind
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| You see he don’t hardly know what he’s doing
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| But he’s still my grandpa
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| But he ain’t nothin' else to turn
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| Tell all you young people, I don’t mean no harm
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| I just want you to leave my grandpa alone
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| He says I’ve got old now, have pity on me
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| If you bother my grandpa
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| I’m the one you gotta see
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| My dear old dad |