They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy

(album: They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy - 1974)

I wasn't much more than a baby, I thought he was a bear
The way my daddy carried me around
They said I learned to walk while holding on to just one finger
On the hand of a man that stands six-foot-three

Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression
Just something people talked about a lot
My daddy wasn't one that tried to make no big impressions
Just one heck of a man that worked for what he got

They don't make men like my daddy anymore
Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom, at a time we really need 'em
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

From the Johnson County Coal Camps to the hills of West Virginia
My daddy worked down in them dark coal mines
Education didn't count so much as what you had born in you
Like the will to live and a dream of better times

Daddy never took a handout, we ate pinto beans and bacon
But he worked to keep the wolf back from the door
And it only proved one thing to me when folks start belly-aching
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore

They don't make men like my daddy anymore
Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom at a time we really need 'em
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore
They don't make 'em like my daddy anymore