Kate Wolf

Kate Wolf - Eyes Of A Painer lyrics

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Gray-haired and flint-eyed

His sunburned face lined

Grandpa was a man of few words

He had a way of not wanting to say

Any more than he thought could be heard.

The long years of living

And day-to-day giving

Had carved a map on his face

With little to lose,

He'd learned how to choose

And his choices were easy to trace.

He had the eyes of a painter

The heart of a maker of songs

And his words fell like rain

On the dry desert plain.

Precious and so quickly gone.

From a long line of teachers

And white Baptist preachers

Her was born with an Indian will.

His quiet dark eyes, reading the light

As he rode in the low Osage hills.

His school was the prairie, the sage, the wild berry

The quail, the wide open sky

The cottonwood thicket by the slow rolling river

The Redbud and the hot cattle drive.

He had the eyes of a painter

The heart of a maker of songs

And his words fell like rain

On the dry desert plain.

Precious and so quickly gone.

There were days filled with thinking,

Nights with the drinking

For a lost love that raged like a storm

But how his eyes smiled, when he'd talk to a child,

The rough hands so gentle and warm.

His strong arms were brown,

where the long sleeves rolled down,

On his faded blue cotton shirt.

When times got hard, he' go out in the yard,

And cuss away some of his hurt.

He had the eyes of a painter

The heart of a maker of songs

And his words fell like rain

On the dry desert plain.

Precious and so quickly gone.

Now the garden's grown dusty,

The hand axe lies rusty,

The door's banking hard in the wind.

Grandpa's store is closed down,

Likes most of the town,

And it won't be open again.

And the big white car sits out in the yard

Of the house he built solid and true.

But I see his eyes, burning tonight,

Like the stars in the sky he once knew.

He had the eyes of a painter

The heart of a maker of songs

And his words fell like rain

On the dry desert plain.

Precious and so quickly gone.

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