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My old man's a fireman – what do you think about that?
He wears a fireman's boots and he wears a fireman's hat.
And some day if I can
I'm gonna be a fireman just like my old man.

My old man's a farmer – what do you think about that?
He wears a farmer's boots and he wears a farmer's hat.
And some day if I can,
I'm gonna be a farmer just like my old man.

My old man's a Unix system administrator – what do you think about that?
He wears a Unix system administrator's boots and he wears a Unix system administrator's cap.
And some day if I can,
I'm gonna be a Unix system administrator just like my old man.

My old man's a Dorsai – what do you think about that?
He wears a Dorsai's boots and he wears a Dorsai's hat.
And some day if I can,
I'm gonna be a Dorsai just like my old man.

My old man's a con-chair – what do you think about that?
He wears a con-chair's boots and he wears a con-chair's hat.
And one day if I can,
I won't be a con-chair, I'm not nuts like my old man.

My old man's a filker – what do you think about that?
He wears filker's boots and he wears a filker's hat.
And some day if I can,
I'm gonna change my name so they don't know he's my old man.

My old man's a skader, that's what I came to say.
He wears forty pounds of armor plate and a pig-faced basinet.
And one day if I can,
I'm gonna get a can opener so I can talk to my old man.

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from Something This Way Filker Comes, released April 2, 2012
Recorded live at Confluence in 2006.

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Pete Grubbs Brookville, Pennsylvania

I started performing music when I was 6, turned pro at 20ish & spent well over 30 years tracking down as many gigs a month as possible. While those days are behind me, I'm still making calculated noise. My music lives where rock, classical, folk, blues & parody hang out. Oddly enough, one of their favorite haunts appears to be in collections of my songs--you'll find a bit of each on every track. ... more

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