I wasn't much more than a baby
I thought he was a bear
The way my daddy carried me around
They said I learned to walk
While holding on to
Just one finger on the hand of a man
That stands six foot three
Not old enough to understand the meaning of depression
Just something people talk about a lot
My daddy was the one to try to make no big impression
Just one heck of a man that worked for what he's got
They don't make them
Like my daddy anymore
Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom
At a time we really need them
They don't make them
Like my daddy anymore
From the johnson county **
To the hills of west virginia
My daddy worked down in the dark coal mines
Education didn't count so much as what you had born
Didn't ya like the will to live
And a dream of better times
Daddy never took a handout
He ate pinto beans and bacon
But he worked to keep the wolf back from the door
And it only proved one thing to me
When folks start belly aching
They don't make 'em
Like my daddy did before
They don't make me
Like my daddy anymore
Guess they've thrown away the pattern through the years
In a great big land of freedom at a time when
They don't make them
Like my daddy anymore
They don't make them
Like my daddy anymore