pearl harbor

my father was there that day in 1941

just a kid from tulsa on the west virgina


didn't speak of it much

there was a scrap book with a front page picture
  of his mother holding a picture of him in the tulsa world

he was reported killed

but that turned out not to be true


he didn't speak of it much

he did once when i was older a little bit

and i asked him about that morning

he said he swam ashore with another guy

the guy gave him his st. Christopher medal

and then he died

i didn't ask him about that stuff again


he was the best man i've met so far in this life

and i ain't no kid

i've been around