Yeah, he had a way with words and a way of makin’ sense From broke down trucks to broken hearts Wasn’t nothin’ he couldn’t fix Everybody called him Red, but to me, he was just Granddad Had an answer for every question I ever had
Like, “What is faith?” and “Who’s James Dean?” “Who’s King James?” and “What does Watergate even mean?” He watched the Berlin wall fall Man, I thought he knew it all And he’d tell me that he learned everything From Jesus and Jeopardy!
He was covered in grease every day from 6 to 3 But come 4 o’clock on the dot, he’d tune in to channel 15 He hardly went to church, but he memorized every proverb Every answer was a question or a verse
Like, “What is faith?” and “Who’s James Dean?” “Who’s JFK and Martin Luther King?” Yeah, Matthew, Mark, and Paul believed because they saw But he told me that he learned everything From Jesus and Jeopardy! “Where do we go when we’re gone?” “What’s the meaning of it all?” Yeah, he’d tell me that he learned everything From Jesus and Jeopardy!