Daddy Frank

DADDY FRANK by Merle Haggard

Daddy Frank played the guitar and the french harp

Sister played the ringing tambourine

Mamma couldn't hear the pretty music

She read our lips and helped the family sing

That little band was all a part of living

And our only means of living at the time

And it wasn't like no normal family combo

Cause Daddy Frank the guitar man was blind

Frank and mamma counted on each other

Their one and only weakness made them strong

Mamma did the driving for the family

And Frank made a living with a song

Home was just a camp along the highway

Pick-up bed was where we bedded down

Don't ever once remember going hungry

But I remember mamma cooking on the ground

Can't remember how they came acquainted

Can't recall just how it came to be

There had to be some special help from someone

And blessed be the one that let it be

Fever caused my mamma's loss of hearing

Daddy Frank was born without his sight

And mamma needed someone she could lean on

And I believe the guitar man was right

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