you want to grow up to paint houses like me a trailer in my yard till you re twenty three you want to be old after forty two years keep dropping the hammer and grinding the gears well i used to go out in a mustang a 302 mach one in green me and your mama made you in the back and i sold it to buy her a ring and i learned not to say much of nothing so i figured you already know but in case you don t or maybe forgot i ll lay it out real nice and slow don t call what your wearing an outfit don t ever say your car is broke don t worry about losing your accent a southern man tells better jokes have fun stay clear of the needle call home on your sister s birthday don t tell them you re bigger than jesus don t give it away five years in a st florian foundry they call it industrial park then hospital maintenance and tech school just to memorize frigidaire parts but i got to missing your mama and i got to missing you too and i went back to painting for my old man and i guess that s what i ll always do so don t try to change who you are boy and don t try to be who you ain t and don t let me catch you in kendale with a bucket of wealthy man s paint don t call what your wearing an outfit don t ever say your car is broke don t sing with a fake british accent don t act like your family s a joke have fun but stay clear of the needle call home on your sister s birthday don t tell them you re bigger than jesus don t give it away don t give it away