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Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:
My father had a Randall knife
My mother gave it to him
When he went off to World War II
To save us all from ruinNow if you've ever held a Randall knife
You know my father well
And if a better blade was ever made
It was probably forged in hellMy father was a good man
He was a lawyer by his trade
And only once did I ever see
Him misuse the bladeWell, it almost cut his thumb off

When he took it for a tool
Now the knife was made for darker things
And you could not bend the rulesWell, he let me take it camping once
On a Boy Scout jamboree
And I broke a half an inch off
Trying to stick it in a treeWell, I hid it from him for a while
But the knife and he were one
And he put it in his bottom drawer
Without a hard word oneThere it slept and there it stayed
For twenty some odd years
Sort of like Excalibur
Except waiting for a tearMy father died when I was forty
And I couldn't find a way to cry
Not because I didn't love him
Not because he didn't tryWell, I'd cried for every lesser thing
Whiskey, pain and beauty
But he deserved a better tear
And I was not quite readySo we took his ashes out to sea
And poured `em off the stern
And then threw the roses in the wake
Of everything we'd learnedAnd when we got back to the house
Well, they asked me what I wanted
Not the law books, not the watch
Oh, I need the things he's hauntedOh, my hand burned for the Randall knife
There in the bottom drawer
And I found a tear for my father's life
And all that it stood for

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Guy Clark (born 1941) is a country songwriter and performer. He was born in Monahans, Texas and his early musical influences were the Spanish music and songs he heard in West Texas. He is married to songwriter and artist, Susanna Clark. Clark achieved success as a songwriter with Jerry Jeff Walker’s recordings of "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting For A Train." Artists such as Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell have recorded Clark’s songs.

Read more about Guy Clark on Last.fm.


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