You Learn Something Old Every Day

[couchgrouch]

You Learn Something Old Every DayDad took me into that old tackle shopI roamed around while he bought a rodthere on the rough plank floor,on a bear rug by the doorwas a big hambone and a sleeping doghe bit my rubber boot when I pet himI got scared and Dad hadda comfort mehe said, "Son, I thought you knew,that's something you don't doyou always let sleeping dogs bebut you learn something old every dayand start to see things in a new waythough all you find...all you knowothers knew long agoyou learn something old every day"when I got home last week and found her noteI went crazy wond'ring where I'd gone wrongcos I'd always worked hard,to afford diamonds and carssometimes I didn't get back till dawnthen over a few beers my father said,"making a living can ruin your life"I shoulda seen it before,she was feeling ignoredso I bought a bouquet and told my wife,"you learn something old every dayand start to see love in a new waythough all you find...all you knowothers knew long agoyou learn something old every day"sometimes we need a push to figure outwhat everyone else knows all aboutyeah, you learn something old every dayand start to see life in a new waythough all you find...all you knowothers knew long agoyou learn something old every day"(c)2004 Robert George