Just Don't Make 'Em

Just Don’t Make ‘em
Tony Kamel

Verse 1
My Grandad was a stubborn man
It was his way or the highway and he always had a plan
If it broke, you fixed it with your own two hands
You don’t hire anyone to do it if you can
He bought a hunk of hearty limestone and granite in the hills
In the heart of central Texas far from cities and from frills
He bought it cash money back in ‘74
Oh they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore

Verse 2
My neighbor Fred was born in 1916
Seemed older than dirt to my brothers and to me
He had a dog named ‘Doggonnit’ and a house up on the hill
That he built with his own two hands, a hammer, and a nail
He had books stacked up from the ceiling to the floor
And a tattered rebel flag from the civil war
Though I never did learn which side his Daddy fought for
Oh they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore

Verse 3
Nowadays we don’t talk face to face
We just send little snippets via satellites in space
And we don’t have any patience, and we want it now
We don’t care or give a damn where or how
They say we’re moving forward and that might be true
But it don’t make it better just because it’s new
Take a hard look back to the days of before
Because they just don’t make ‘em like that anymore