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Dear Ol' Daddy

from Imperfect Man by Rick Waines

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Not written for my parents.

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I’d like to thank you dear ol’ Daddy. I’d like to thank you very much.
I’d like to thank you dear ol’ Daddy. For the tickles and the touch.
I’d like to thank you dear ol’ Daddy. My perpective’s much improved
Had to leave this broken body to get this lofty birds eye view.

Chorus
But it is all... it’s right now. I’ve raised two kids of my own. On my own.
But it was hard sometimes, not to fill the shoes that you left behind.
I wish you’d walked a mile in my first pair of dress me up shoes.

I’d like to thank you dear ol’ Mother. You’ve really been a proper queen.
I’d like to thank you dear ol’ Mother Mother. For the cookies and the creams.
I’d like to thank you dear ol’ Mother. Thanks to you I got my first job.
And a special thanks to the keen edge of your calloused tongue.
Helped me learn to talk dirty to the johns.

Chorus
But it is all it’s right now. I’ve raised two kids of my own. On my own.
But it was hard sometimes, not to fill the shoes that you left behind.
I wish you’d walked a mile in my first pair of dress me up shoes.

Bridge
But now that you’re old, and too frail to scold.
Too crippled to hold onto those tales that you told.
Those tales that you told those tales those tales those tales
Those tales that you told those tales those tales those tales
Those tales that you told
Those tales that you told
Those tales that you told

I’d like to tell you dearest parents
About the child you threw away.
I’d like to tell you dearest parents.
In spite of you I am ok.

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from Imperfect Man, released October 31, 2011
Rick Waines, Ryan Guldemond, Jocelyn Waugh, Niko Friesen, Molly Guldemond.

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