Your Daddy Has Just Retired
Your Daddy Has Just Retired
By Janice N. Chapman
(C) 2/9/2001 All Rights Reserved
Has your daddy given up
The life he loved the best?
Has he actually retired from
His dream — his childhood quest?
Is that his bridle he’s hanging there –
That leather he’s carried with him everywhere?
And is that your daddy’s saddle
He slung across the saddle rest?
And those his leather chaps
That he hung there with the rest?
And along beside of that –
He hung his leather vest.
And there upon the nails
Hang the irons he branded with.
It isn’t like your daddy
To give up things like this.
But age has caught up with him,
And althoug it nearly makes me cry,
I’d never question his decision –
No, I’d never ask him “why?”
I know he’ll count upon you, son,
To get up and carry on –
Will you wear as big a boots
As the ones your dad has on?
Your daddy has just retired from
His dreams — the life he loved the best.
He’ll leave it all for you, son,
And he knows you’ll do your best.
