Regal Zonophone
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No one owned a car as I recall my childhood days
We walked to school and the outside world seemed a million miles away
We seldom went to town if only someone was real sick
Our lives were wrapped around the farm and the neighbors up the creek
Our nearest neighbors were the Kyles, they had big families
The Dunbars down the road bought a Wireless and a Model T
They gathered round to hear the thing, I think it changed our ways
We listened to test cricket and we followed Dad and Dave
I never got to know my dad because I'll not relate
Well, not until my teenage years and then it was a little late
He said, "I'll help your singing, lad, when this old war is won
" But he never lived to hear me sing on Regal's own phone
Old man, you were a rebel, you were loud and you were rough
The neighbors called you Noisy Dan, you were made of solid stuff
You'd lay that fiddle down your arm and the Irish songs would flow
But you never lived to hear me sing on Regal's own phone
You wrote some verses down for me, the tunes I've not forgot
The last two years you seemed to know your time was running short
You held your head in tired, all hands concerned for what had been
And you seemed to know you'd never see me reach the final dream
I've tried to do what you intended on life's rocky run
That you'd be proud if you could see your bearded, tall grandson
So when I hit that final trail, I'll take this box along
And together we will sing those songs from Regal's own phone
Old man, we'll both be rebels and we'll be loud and rough
They may call us lots of names but we will call their bluff
You can lay that fiddle down your arm and I will sing along
And together we will sing those songs from Regal's own phone
Together we will sing those songs from Regal's own phone
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