My Brother and Me

Grandpa Charles smoked and drank whiskey
 But he died in 43
 Nobody like him in all my kin
 Untill my brother and me
 He died in a small town so far back
 They didn't know what hit him maybe a heart attack
 That was a drag on my grandma you know
 She never really forgave him for that
 Most every year on Christmas Day
 My dad and me go down where he lay
 I don't know what kind of man he'd be
 But he'd like my brother and me
 Grandmama married a man she found
 Even fore Grandaddy hit the ground
 Took 45 years but what do you know
 He turned that right around
 Grandma would tell him about the family
 How they come over from Germany
 Oma and Opa was hard folks though
 You know how them Germans can be
 When she died we cried and sang that day
 With the guitars tuned to the doghouse bass
 Nobody sings down low and sweet
 Not like my brother and me
 My great grandpappy on my mother's side
 Made a whole lot of money before he died
 He was a wildcatter and in the Klan besides
 And that was a matter of pride
 Never wondered where great grandpappy went
 He lit a cigar neath a oxygen tent
 A man of secrets I'll never know
 Like a letter never sent
 They're all livin like they should
 But all the money in the world didn't do em no good
 Their daughter went and married an old hayseed
 And they had my brother and me
 What do they say about the small town
 You can take the boy out of Bandera
 Not the other way around
 I don't know but man it's true
 Those bright lights will get you down
 I'm gonna stay on the old concrete
 Cause them city girls they smell so sweet
 I don't know what the hell they see
 But they like my brother and me
 But they like my brother and me
 They like my brother a little more than they do me
 But they like my brother and me
 We go down to the Spur some night
 And listen to the river neath the pale moon light
 And tell our buddies what's it's like to be
 Just like my brother and me
 Just like my brother and me
 Don't mess my with mt brother and me
 Just like my brother and me
 Just like my brother and me