Featured song from 2014's Do Not Rush the Dawn LP
Jeff Davis Pie
Well Mamma called me up 'n said, "It's your grandma's birthday son, so you 'n Sheryl need to come--- and bring the girls." She said that it was 80 years since Grandma'd taken her first breath, and a party with all the family'd "mean the world..."
Well 80 years is a long time to hang around if you count your age by time. But Grandma's 80 years was like a small slice of her Jeff Davis pie, and we all think a second 80'd be just fine!
Well, Grandma came from Arkansas 'n that's where she me my grandpa 'n they had three daughters--- each ten years apart. She cooked the meals 'n washed the clothes and I think she even had time to sew a dress or two or three or forty-four.
Well 80 years is a long time to hang around if you count your age by time. But Grandma's 80 years was like a small slice of her Jeff Davis pie, and we all think a second 80'd be just fine!
Now I remember trips across the mountain, 'round about Christmas time--- that queasy feelin' when we took a curve too fast. But I remember pullin' up to that screened-in porch and thinkin' we'd surprise 'em 'till my brother let the screen door slam.
I remember cinnamon rolls and eatin' raw dough and old lipsticks in the bottom drawer and that big steel bed that squeaked beneath my head... And those gas room-heaters and the magnifying mirror and that plastic-shrunken-head souvenir and coleslaw and toastin' buttery bread... And the time that Grandpa gave me a gun and I shot that squirrel that was old as the sun and Grandma softened him up in a dumplin' stew... And when we'd go to church she'd pass around the Certs after service, then we'd all go home to eat 'n sleep till 2, or 3 or 4 or 5 or..
80 years is a long time to hang around if you count your age by time. But Grandma's 80 years was like a small slice of her Jeff Davis pie, and we all think a second 80'd be just fine!
Now, some people like to QUANTIFY and graph their lives like pieces of pie and subdivide their story like a book. But 80's just a number... and don't it make you wonder why somebody'd slice up a pie if it's just for looks? You best dig right in, cause…
80 years is a long time to hang around if you count your age in time. But Grandma's 80 years was like a little bitty slice of her Jeff Davis pie, and we all think a second 80'd be just fine!
Cause the spice of life sure ain't time--- No, it's Grandma 'n Grandpa 'n Jeff Davis pie.
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