Bits And Pieces Of Life Song Lyrics and Chords by Cal Smith
Bits And Pieces Of Life
Recorded by Cal Smith
Written by Charlie Williams
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No one knows the old man's name
But every evening as the sun goes
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down
He
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pulls a creaking wagon to the city dump a mile or so from
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town
And
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he searches through the papers and the bottles
And wonders what he'll fin
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today
He's collecting bits and pieces
Of the
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lives other people threw
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away
There's a picture in a broken frame
That
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shows a father
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standing with his
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son
Their smiling faces testify
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neither sees the
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troubled times to
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come
The
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father couldn't understand the teenage boy
With values of his
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own
And neither one would compromise
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now just like the old man they'r
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alone
He brushes off a crumpled dress
That a
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pretty girl once
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wore to her first
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dance
She and the boy were planning to be
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married
But they
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never got the
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chance
They
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buried him in Viet Nam
And she just grieved herself to death they
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say
He's collecting bits and pieces
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lives that other people threw
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away
He kicks aside the cans
And finds
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record two young
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lovers called their
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song
And a crucifix a mother gave her
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daughter
Back
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before the world went
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wrong
The
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old man slowly turns to go
The walk today was hardly worth his
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time
It's just a bunch of junk he says
For there ain'
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t nothing here that's wort
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h a dime
FAQ
Who sang the the song Bits And Pieces Of Life?
- The song Bits And Pieces Of Life was sang by Cal Smith.
Who is Cal Smith?
- Calvin Grant Shofner (April 7, 1932 - October 10, 2013), known professionally as Cal Smith, was an American country musician, most famous for his 1974 hits "Country Bumpkin" and "It's Time to Pay the Fiddler".
