Story Behind The Song
A friend [co-writer] was reminiscing about how much he missed the "the old man" his father-in-law who trained him to be a machinist, and much more about life then he realized at the time. He once said his idea of heaven would be a machine shop where every
Song Description
the mentor is now gone and the studant who himself is now a journeyman is thinking back
fondly about how much he learned from the"old man"
| Song Length |
4:10 |
Genre |
Blues - General, Blues - Country |
| Tempo |
Floating |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Subject |
Insults |
| |
Lyrics
MACHINE SONG
(For Our Mentors)
By: Mike Cloonan,Bill Wynn
Copyright 2000
VERSE 1
Machines running
Motors humming
Sparks a flying everywhere
Metal turning
Steel a burning
Smellin? progress in the air
VERSE 2
Old man told me
Old man showed me
How to turn steel into gold
Taking nothing
Making something
Turning new out of old.
CHORUS
He always said son I?ll save a place for you in heaven
Side by side me and you will work again
There?ll be a machine waiting for you when you get there
don?t need no lectric, just faith and me and you.
VERSE 3
Hear him cussin?
Always fussin?
Always right never wrong.
Just perfection
Always checkin?
Teaching me all along.
VERSE 4
I turned around
I heard no sound
In a moment he was gone
But his teaching
Forever reaching
Into my soul he still lives on