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It’s the simple things in life.  But life ain’t so simple right
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And times get hard and people can make you mad
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But I remember when I was young.  I couldn’t wait to turn twenty one
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Sit in the backyard sun and drink beer with dad

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Drinking beer with dad,  Out there on the back porch swinging
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Drinking beer with dad,  Picking my guitar and grinning
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We’d hem and haw, we’d cuss and fight.  But that’s where I learned life’s best advice
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We’d talk about when I was young and bad.  Sometimes he’d make me fightin’ mad
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Best education I ever had.  Was out there on the back porch drinking beer with dad

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Now a days most things have changed.  This whole world is heading down the drain
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There’s no God in schools.  Toting guns is the latest fad
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A little discipline would sure be nice.  A little lesson in wrong and right
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Maybe it’s time young man to have a beer with dad

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Drinking beer with dad.  Out there on the back porch swinging
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Drinking beer with dad.  Picking my guitar and singing
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I’d play him songs all through the night.  I’d praise the Lord I saw the light
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We’d stay up late and make mom mad.  But half the time we’d just laugh and laugh
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Some of the best times I ever had.  Was out there on the back porch drinking beer with dad

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Now son I’m so damn proud of you.  And the young man you’ve turned in-to
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You’re the best son a father could ever have.   
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And though your grandpa’s done past on.  Soon you’ll be twenty one.  
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So come on the back porch son and have a beer with dad

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                   C                                 G
Drinking beer with dad.  Out there on the back porch swinging
                   C                             G
Drinking beer with dad.  Picking our guitars and grinning
      G                                       Am
We’ll hem and haw, we’ll cuss and fight.  But I’ll pass along life’s best advice
      C                                  Em
We’ll talk about your old granddad.  The things he gave us he never had
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I wish forever our time could last.  I wish this world wouldn’t move so fast
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Out here on the back porch.  Out here on the back porch drinking beer with dad