The Longer I Live The Smarter My Daddy Gets Lyrics

As a boy he grew up

An inner city child of Detroit

His fathers drinking drove him to sea

Where a naval engineer is what he'd be

He moved around 'bout fifty one

He bought a little cabin on a lake and he married my mom

And he worked the shipyards of the Puget Sound

Near Belfair, Washington where they settled down

Where he taught me how to fish

And how to shoot a gun

How to hold my head up high

How to fight and never run

My daddy knew more than I'll ever forget

Yeah the longer I live the smarter my daddy gets

He named his boat "The African Queen"

From a "Bogart" movie my daddy said he had seen

And his 'ol piano where I'd watch him play

Those boogie woogie bar room songs of yesterday

Well he taught me how to laugh

How to fix things when they broke

How to change an 'ol flat tire

And be kind to other folks

My daddy knew more than I'll ever forget

Now the longer I live the smarter my daddy gets

Any mistakes he made look trivial through time

Don't know how you'll remember yours

That's how I remember mine

'Cause he taught me how to laugh

How to fix things when they broke

How to change an 'ol flat tire

And be kind to other folks

My daddy knew more than I'll ever forget

Now the longer I live the smarter my daddy gets

Yeah the longer I live the smarter my daddy gets