well he likes black coffee fried eggs and a well done t bone steak he like a red dress and pearly white teeth and the flash of a pretty brown leg he said back in the 30s you know you never had it made he s an engineer over on the ohio river runnin in the pittsburgh trade with the inspection office in louisville at a desk for a very short time and he played in a band on two different boats working for the strackfus line and long ago he smoked reefer and he even made home brew and the reefer come in through new orleans back before world war ii he s just a feller worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel you say he s old fashioned well that ain t no big deal well it s too thick to navigate and it s too thin to plow so let him go on mama and don t put him down for it now well he sits there an smokes an old i bolt cigar says he doesn t miss it at all but he still goes out and he makes a few trips in the summer and then in the fall oh the railroad trains the bus and planes been takin up all the slack he s been watching all those river towns slowly turn their backs  he s just a feller worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel you say he s old fashioned well that ain t no big deal well it s too thick to navigate and it s too thin to plow so let him go on mama and don t put him down for it now well he comes from a real old time way of life he had to fight to just learn how and he might even have voted for nixon once but i m sure he sees that now well friday night he makes the best damn gumbo you d ever want to eat and saturday morning fore everyone s up he s gone off down to the fleet he s just a feller worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel you say he s old fashioned well that ain t no big deal well it s too thick to navigate and it s too thin to plow so let him go on mama and don t put him down for it now you re as pretty as he is ugly and he s the happiest man alive you ve got him into believing that old men are back in style now you see these oysters bienville and this baked potato skin i eat em so i can grow up an be an old man just like him he s just a feller worked on the river all his life by a paddle wheel you say he s old fashioned well that ain t no big deal well it s too thick to navigate and it s too thin to plow so let him go on mama and don t put him down for it now