DADDY
SANG BASS
(Carl Perkins)
I remember when I was a lad
Times were hard and things were bad
But there's a silver linin' behind every cloud
Just poor people that all we were
Tryin' to make a livin' out of blackland (earth
or dirt)
But we'd get together in a family circle singin'
loud.
cho: Daddy
sang bass,
mama sang
tenor
Me and little brother would join right in there
Singin' seems to help a troubled soul
One of these days and it won't be long
I'll rejoin them in a song
I'm gonna join the family circle at the throne.
No, the circle won't be broken
Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye
Daddy'll sing bass,
mama'll sing tenor
Me and little brother will join right in there
In the sky, Lord, in the sky.
Now I remember after work mama would call in all
of us
You could hear us singin' for a country mile
Now little brother has done gone on but I'll
rejoin him in a song
We'll be together again up yonder in a little
while.
cho: Daddy
sang bass,
mama sang
tenor
Me and little brother would join right in there
Singin' seems to help a troubled soul
One of these days and it won't be long
I'll rejoin them in a song
I'm gonna join the family circle at the throne.
No, the circle won't be broken
Bye and bye, Lord, bye and bye
Daddy'll sing bass,
mama'll sing tenor
Me and little brother will join right in there
In the sky, Lord, in the sky.
Recorded by Johnny Cash
Copyright Carl Perkins
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MARK TWAIN QUOTES ON
FATHERS
It is a wise child that knows its own father,
and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of
him.
- More Maxims of Mark, Johnson, 1927
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so
ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much the old man had learned in
seven years.
- attributed by Reader's Digest, Sept.
1937.
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History of
Father's Day
Father's Day, contrary to
popular misconception, was not established as a
holiday in order to help greeting card
manufacturers sell more cards. In fact when a
"father's day" was first proposed there
were no Father's Day cards!
Mrs. John B. Dodd, of
Washington, first proposed the idea of a
"father's day" in 1909. Mrs. Dodd
wanted a special day to honor her father, William
Smart. William Smart, a Civil War veteran, was
widowed when his wife (Mrs. Dodd's mother) died
in childbirth with their sixth child. Mr. Smart
was left to raise the newborn and his other five
children by himself on a rural farm in eastern
Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became
an adult that she realized the strength and
selflessness her father had shown in raising his
children as a single parent.
The first Father's Day was
observed on June 19, 1910 in Spokane Washington.
At about the same time in various towns and
cities across American other people were
beginning to celebrate a "father's
day." In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge
supported the idea of a national Father's Day.
Finally in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a
presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd
Sunday of June as Father's Day.
Father's Day has become a day
to not only honor your father, but all men who
act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles,
grandfathers, and adult male friends are all be
honored on Father's Day.
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