Friday fun: Keep Your Heart Young
Friday, January 18, 2013 I heard this song—this artist, actually—for the very first time yesterday. Where have I been?
I really enjoy this song and thought you might, too. Just a little something sweet and simple for Friday.
Keep Your Heart Young — Brandi Carlile
My grandpa gave me a wheat penny and I kept it in my pocket
Had big plans in my backyard to build me a space rocket
Talked to my brother on a fake CB that I made from a tic-tac box
Packed my snowballs nice and tight and in the middle I put rocks
Don't trade in your tic-tac box for a ball on the end of the chain
And don't go spending grandpa's pennies buying into the game
You gotta keep your heart young
Don't go growin' old before your time has come
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young
Dad took the wheels off of my bike and he pushed me down a hill
But speed got the best of me and I took my first spill
That was back when alcohol was only used on cuts
Stung like hell so I shook my leg and mama said it would give me guts
Don't trade in your tic-tac box for a ball on the end of the chain
And don't go spending grandpa's pennies buying into the game
You gotta keep your heart young
Don't go growing old before your time has come
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young
So take a picture of the one you love and put it in a locket
Go dig up your time capsule and the blueprints for your rocket
Keep in touch on a fake CB and that same old tic-tac box
Pack your snowballs a little less tight but in the middle still put rocks
And keep your heart young
Don't go growing old before your time has come
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young
You gotta keep your heart young
Sometimes you don't die quick
Just like you wished you'd done
The love is a loaded gun
You've gotta keep your heart young
You can't take back what you have done
You gotta keep your heart young
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Today's question:
What's one of your treasured memories of your grandfather?
Reader Comments (8)
Nice! Brandi Carlile is quite a talent.
Great song!
She is quite a talent, you can understand every word. Nice song, thanks.
I can't listen to it yet -- but love the lyrics! And very true -- we have to stay young at heart!
Loved this soooooo much! Thanks for sharing. I won't be forgetting this for a very long time. Very cool.
Love that song, thanks for posting!
Fondest memories of my grandfathers.......hanging out with my paternal grandfather at the golf course he worked at and caddying for him at age 9. Sitting with my maternal grandfather in his favorite chair (even though there was not much room for two) and watching TV.
My paternal grandpa always made us into wheelbarrows and would "push" us around the house. That, and he played the mandolin.
My maternal grandpa always called us his 'duckies," and remembered us with a card and a $2 bill every Valentine's Day. So simple and so sweet.
Love the lyrics to this song. I hadn't heard it either.
My maternal grandfather would make little wooden benches and cricket cages for us in his garage. They would just appear without a word. His name was Andrew and he truly was a saint...a good, good man who feared the Lord and never had a bad word to say about anybody (grandma took care of that part!) We adored them both and according to them, my two sisters and I could do no wrong (although we did!)